Leyes
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~240.000 palabras · 1129 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAPlatón. (n.d.). Laws [Leyes]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/plato/laws
- MLAPlatón. Laws [Leyes]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/plato/laws.
- ChicagoPlatón. Laws [Leyes]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/plato/laws.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
Las Leyes: la conversación de tres ancianos que van subiendo a un templo y van diseñando, por el camino, la legislación entera de una ciudad nueva.
Contexto e historia
Es la obra más larga de Platón y la última: la dejó sin revisar al morir, y se nota en la construcción. Hay un detalle que sorprende a quien viene de los otros diálogos: Sócrates no aparece. Quien lleva la conversación es un anónimo, «el extranjero ateniense». Tampoco es la ciudad de la República: aquí Platón acepta ley escrita, propiedad y familia, y lo que sale es mucho más severo y mucho menos ideal.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
refutation of these three classes of unbelievers, and concludes with the means to be taken for their reformation, and the announcement of their punishments if they continue obstinate and impenitent. The eleventh book is taken up with laws and with admonitions relating to individuals, which follow one another without any exact order. There are laws concerning deposits and the finding of treasure; concerning slaves and freedmen; concerning retail trade, bequests, divorces, enchantments, poisonings, magical arts, and the like. In the twelfth book the same subjects are continued. Laws are passed concerning violations of military discipline, concerning the high office of the examiners and their burial; concerning oaths and the violation of them, and the punishments of those who neglect their duties as citizens. Foreign travel is then discussed, and the permission to be accorded to citizens of journeying in foreign parts; the strangers who may come to visit the city are also spoken of, and the manner in which they are to be received. Laws are added respecting sureties, searches for property, right of possession by prescription, abduction of witnesses, theatrical competition, waging of private warfare, and bribery in offices. Rules are laid down respecting taxation, respecting economy in sacred rites, respecting judges, their duties and sentences, and respecting sepulchral places and ceremonies. Here the Laws end. Lastly, a Nocturnal Council is instituted for the preservation of the state, consisting of older and younger members, who are to exhibit in their lives that virtue which is the basis of the state, to know the one in many, and to be educated in divine and every other kind of knowledge which will enable them to fulfil their office. III.…