Book

Laws

by Plato (428–348 BCE)

14 chapters, about 232,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. 10,200 words
2. THE PREAMBLE. 82,900 words
3. BOOK I. 10,600 words
4. BOOK II. 9,200 words
5. BOOK III. 10,200 words
6. BOOK IV. 7,900 words
7. BOOK V. 9,600 words
8. BOOK VI. 14,900 words
9. BOOK VII. 15,400 words
10. BOOK VIII. 10,000 words
11. BOOK IX. 13,400 words
12. BOOK X. 11,500 words
13. BOOK XI. 12,500 words
14. BOOK XII. 13,300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Court
• Crime
• Dance
• Exile
• Homicide
• Honour
• Ignorance
• Law and order (politics)
• Medes
• Number
• Orphan
• Positive law
• Republic
• Self-love
• State (polity)

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