" This text corresponds to Stephanus numbers 624a through 969d.
This work uses the image of a puppet pulled by two hard iron strings and a flexible golden string to describe the soul. It splits desirable outcomes into the "human goods," such as health or wealth, and "divine goods." This text corresponds to Stephanus numbers 624a through 969d. A key passage of this book compares the free doctor's healing of free men to the slave doctor's healing of slaves, and its final section argues that a "Nocturnal Council" ought to have immense powers before sunrise in a city with exactly 5,040 (*) households in it, called Magnesia. Megillus appears with Clinias at a crossroads on Crete in this work, where they talk with a man identified only as the "Athenian Stranger". For 10 points, name this pessimistic, twelve-book, Socrates-free dialogue about ordering society, written years after the Republic on similar subject matter by an older Plato.
This work uses the image of a puppet pulled by two hard iron strings and a flexible golden string to describe the soul.
Plato's Laws [or Nómoi]