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The central aim is to examine the dual goals of legislation in Plato's Laws: promoting virtue and understanding death.

The Telos of Wise Legislation: Virtue and Death in Plato’s Laws I and II

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The central aim is to examine the dual goals of legislation in Plato's Laws: promoting virtue and understanding death.
Analyzes Kleinias's role in illustrating miseducation about virtue and conflicting views on death.
Investigates statements from the Stranger in books I and II on virtue, happiness, and death.
Identifies how legislation can miseducate citizens, leading to conflicting evaluations of virtue and death.
Finds that the Stranger promotes a coherent understanding of virtue and death that wise law should impart to citizens.

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This article explores how legislation shapes citizens' virtue and understanding of death, indicating their intertwined nature.

Samuel Mead (2026) studied this question.

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