Laws

Plato of Athens — an ancient Greek philosopher-idealist, a student of Socrates, a teacher of Aristotle. It is with Plato that philosophy is formed as a system of knowledge. What are laws and why should they be obeyed? What are they needed for and on what philosophical teachings should they be based? Who, according to Plato, is destined to embody these laws and become the ideal ruler? And what is the ideal ruler like? Through the voices of his characters, Plato answers these and other questions in the dialogues "Sophist," "Statesman," "Laws," and "Epinomis."