What is Laws (Plato)?
{{no sources|date=February 2024}} [[File:Nomoi beginning. Codex Parisinus graecus 1807.jpg|thumb|The beginning of the Laws, in the oldest exiting source, from the [[9th century]] ([[codex]] Parsinus Graecus 1807)]] [[File:Psiloritis Mountain01.jpg|thumb|Psiloritis Mountain in [[Crete]], was the location of the hiking trip in ''Laws'']] '''Laws''' ([[Ancient Greek]] Νόμοι '''''Nómoi''''' ['nɔmɔɪ̯]) is a text [[Plato]] wrote as an old man. Like most of his other works, it is written in the form of a [[dialogue]]. It is perhaps Plato's most important writing. In the dialogue, three people on a [[hiking]] trip discuss what an ideal [[state]] should look like. They discuss many topics and questions, including these: * [[Divine revelation]], [[divine law]] and law-giving * The role of [[intelligence]] in law-giving * The relations of [[philosophy]], [[religion]], and [[politics]] * The role of [[music]], exercise and [[dance]] in education * [[Natural law]] and [[Natural rights and legal rights|natural rights]] [[Category:Works by Plato]]