Recent scholarship has followed Glenn Morrow in seeking to understand Plato’s politics in light of his cosmology. This essay takes a different tack and interprets the theology and cosmology of the Laws as an outgrowth of the Athenian Stranger’s conversation with Kleinias, which focuses on politics and warfare. In that sense the arguments of Book 10 are closely tied to the context of the dialogue. The Athenian Stranger’s religious ideology is not designed to be permanent or universally applicable. Rather, it is intended for an audience that finds itself immersed in an unhealthy world of motion, disorder, and antagonism.

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柏拉图定律中的城邦和宇宙

最近的奖学金跟随格伦·莫罗（Glenn Morrow）寻求根据他的宇宙学来理解柏拉图的政治。本文采取了不同的立场，并解释了法律的神学和宇宙论是雅典怪人与克莱尼阿斯对话的产物，该对话着重于政治和战争。从这个意义上讲，第10本书的论点与对话的背景紧密相关。雅典陌生人的宗教意识形态并不是永久性的或普遍适用的。相反，它适用于发现自己沉浸在不健康的运动，无序和对立世界中的听众。