The connection is closer to Philosophy &lt;-&gt; Law &lt;-&gt; Logic  &lt;-&gt; Philosophy than Philosophy containing Logic.  In context much of this discourse relates to their system of government.<p>PS: There is a great comedy about this stuff from the roman republic which has a great scene that roughly translates as:  A: Yay communism! B: Who would work the fields?  A: Why the slaves of course!  Anyway, stripped from context it&#x27;s really easy to misread many of their arguments.