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Laws X, 893b–899d: What is Plato’s positive argument from self-motion?

March 16, 2026

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Laws X, 891b–892c: What is the Athenian’s strategy for the refutation of the atheists?

March 16, 2026

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Laws X, 890b–891c: Why do the interlocutors find it important to argue at length that gods exist and are good?

March 15, 2026

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Laws X, 888e–890a. How does the Athenian reconstruct the atheists’ outlook?

March 15, 2026

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Laws X, 886b–887e. How can the Athenian say that it is “necessary…to hate” those not believing the stories of the gods, when just a page before he said he thought them false?

March 15, 2026

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Laws X, 886e–887b: In what way might Book X be a “preamble” or “prelude” to the laws?

March 14, 2026

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Laws X, 885c–885e: On what grounds would the imagined atheists demand that “persuasion be used on us first”?

March 14, 2026

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Laws X, 884a–885c: How does Plato segue from property law to dealing with impiety?

March 14, 2026

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Laws X.884a–900b: How does Plato’s approach to apologetics compare to that of modern Christian apologetics?

March 13, 2026

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