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It is to be a small agricultural state, governed by a virtually unalterable code of laws and insulated from almost all day-to-day contact with the rest of the world. The fundamental conviction which inspires the whole project is that, given care and effort, it is possible to achieve a society that is at once excellent and unchanging. At a popular level, this optimistic belief has never lost its influence: it is still the unformulated assumption behind political programmes of widely varying complexions.
Do we wish to blame Plato for accepting and approving certain institutions and customs of his day, simply because we find them repellent? Slavery, which is fundamental to the whole structure of Magnesia, is a case in point. We reject it utterly; yet it was as completely taken for granted in the ancient world as the employer–employee relationship today (which may itself in time come to be regarded with as much distaste as slavery is regarded now). 33 Let us by all means censure Plato for accepting slavery: but let us also condemn the entire ancient world, and not single out Plato for special mention.
But does this mean that the Laws, as a utopian work, deserves the full measure of our censure? A brief review of Plato’s life and thought will enable us to understand the origins and nature of his book. PLATO’S LIFE AND WORK Plato was born in 427 BC into an aristocratic and well-connected Athenian family. His father’s name was Ariston, his mother’s Perictione; he had two brothers and one sister. When he was no more than a boy his father died, and his mother married Pyrilampes, who had been on friendly terms with Pericles (died 429), the leader of the Athenian democracy.