As he explicates the major themes and arguments of the dialogue, Benardete also shows how these strands of argument are interwoven throughout the Laws and then sets them against the quite different arguments on the same themes found in The Republic and The Statesman."--BOOK JACKET.

The Law Most Beautiful and Best is a thoughtful and creative examination of the role irrational rhetoric ought to play in persuading citizens to voluntarily obey laws. Author Randall Baldwin Clark explores the figure of the physician in Plato's Laws to address this question, identifying the subtle ways in which Plato uses the physician's role in healing as a metaphor for the task of governance and arguing that Plato hints that rational discourse may ultimately be inadequate as a persuasive technique.

This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also inform conversations in philosophy and political theory. Love is the central category for Christian ethical understanding. Yet, the growing field of law and religion, and relatedly law and theology, rarely addresses how love can shape our understanding of law. This reflects, in part, a common assumption that law and love stand in necessary tension. Love applies to the private and the personal. Law, by contrast, applies to the public and the political, realms governed by power. It is thus a mistake to envisage love as having anything but a negative relationship to law. This conclusion continues to govern Christian understandings of the meaning and vocation of law. The animating idea of this volume is that the concept of love can and should inform Christian legal thought. The project approaches this task from the perspective of both historical and constructive theology. Various contributions examine how such thinkers as Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin utilised love in their legal thought. These essays highlight often neglected aspects of the Christian tradition. Other contributions examine Christian love in light of contemporary legal topics including civility, forgiveness, and secularism. Love, the book proposes, not only matters for law but can transform the terms on which Christians understand and engage it. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of legal theory; law and religion; law and philosophy; legal history; theology and religious studies; and political theory.

This book rehabilitates Cicero's reputation as an important political thinker by providing a fresh interpretation of his central works of political philosophy.

Hosting the Stranger features ten powerful meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars and practitioners from the five different wisdom traditions: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. By gathering thinkers from different religious traditions around the same timely topic of what it means to 'host the stranger,' this text enacts the hospitality it investigates, facilitating a hopeful and constructive dialogue between the world's major religions.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

An introduction to Hegel's ideas on the nature of law. This book takes readers through different structures of legal consciousness, from the private law of property, contract, and crimes to intentionality, the family, the role of the state, and international law.

Scripture as it has never been presented before! The greatest Scripture study guide compilation and deception-defeating, truth-revealing book of all time ever written! Bringing the whole Christian denominational church system under question and shaking the foundational teachings of the popular mainstream, but misled Christian mindset! 2,000 YEARS OF MAINSTREAM CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES, PRACTICES, AND TRADITIONS DISMANTLED IN ONE BOOK! CENTURIES OF DENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN LIES EXPOSED! RABBINICAL JUDAISM'S ERRORS EXAMINED AND CORRECTED! GRACE ONLY - EASY BELIEVISM, NO NEED TO REPENT, REALLY? HAVE YOU ACTUALLY BEEN BORN AGAIN AND ARE YOU ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED? IS YESHUA (JESUS) GOD? DID HE FULFILL (ABOLISH) THE LAW? ARE THE DIETARY LAWS OF CLEAN AND UNCLEAN CREATURES CEREMONIAL OR PERPETUAL? DO THEY APPLY TODAY? SCIENCE CONFIRMED BY SCRIPTURE, THE AGE OF THE EARTH, THE EXTINCTION OF THE DINOSAURS EXPLAINED, AND EVOLUTION THEORY DEBUNKED!