The Laws by Plato Simplified on Superphysics

The Kinds of Violence

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Let us sum up all acts of violence under a single law:

No one shall take or carry away any of his neighbour’s goods, neither shall he use anything which is his neighbour’s without the consent of the owner.

The 2 Kinds of Motion

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CLEINIAS: But why is the word ’nature’ wrong?

ATHENIAN: Because those who use the word mean that nature is the first creative power.

But if the soul turns out to be the primeval element, and not fire or air, then in the truest sense and beyond other things the soul may be said to exist by nature; and this would be true if you proved that the soul is older than the body, but not otherwise.

The Circular Motion of the Soul

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Athenian

What is the definition of ‘soul’?

Excellent Souls

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Athenian

Excellent souls are the causes of all of:

The Existence of the Gods

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ATHENIAN: The ruler of the universe has ordered all things with a view to the excellence and preservation of the whole, and each part, as far as may be, has an action and passion appropriate to it.