Pagan Politics, War, and the Construction of Nomoi

In Plato's Political Philosophy, Vol. 2. pp. 58-71 (1997)
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Abstract

The problem Plato sounds from the first lines of LAWS, his final dialogue, might be put in Jean-François Lyotard's term: it is the problem of the differend. Lyotard's position is briefly explained, shown to be applicable to the discussion in several ways (not the least of which is the three different gods appealed to as sources of the laws). We then see how Plato makes a chorus of the differend, resolving Lyotard's modern problem.

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Gene Fendt
University of Nebraska at Kearney

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