Socrates’ student, Aristotle’s mentor, a thinker from whom philosophy gained a coherent form—Plato of Athens left behind not just works, but a key to understanding the state and the human soul.
Plato of Athens was an ancient Greek idealist philosopher, a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. From his writings, philosophy comes together into a complete system of knowledge.
What are laws, and why should one obey them?
For what do they exist, and on what philosophical grounds should they be built?
Who, according to Plato, is destined to embody these laws and become the perfect ruler?
And what should the ideal ruler be like?
To these and many other questions, Plato answers through the voices of the characters in his dialogues—“The Sophist,” “Statesman,” “Laws,” and “The Laws, or After the Laws.”