O Minos no Corpus Platónico

• Autor(a) principal: Colen, J. A.
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/55953
• topic: Platão; Plato; Minos; Plato´s Laws; Legislation; Laws; Authenticity; Leis; Legislação; Autenticidade; Humanidades::Filosofia, Ética e Religião

The Minos is the dialogue that precedes the Laws in the traditional organization from Trasyllus. The text is now gaining acceptance as an authentic dialogue of Plato, and no one in the ancient tradition appears to have questioned the dialogue. But this interesting dialogue and one of the earliest texts on legislation risks being a classic that no one actually reads. The paper includes, along with a new Portuguese translation, an introduction that presents briefly the problems of authenticity and a debate of the role of the dialogue within the Platonic corpus. We contend that the dialogue is a useful if not necessary prelude to the Laws. Only this text permits the full understanding of the dialogues where Socrates is absent, whose scenario is far away from Athens. It establishes the framework of the action of Plato’s most long work, presenting both the arguments and necessary dramatic setting.