"Subjection for the sake of virtue": voluntary slavery in Plato's Symposium and the Laws
<p>What is to be made of Plato’s provocative and perplexing claim in the Laws that both Athenian citizens and citizens of Magnesia, Plato’s second-best city, should be thought of as “voluntary slaves to the laws”? How is it possible that ordinary citizens attain virtue by mimicking the subordi...
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2021
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