Description: All over the world secular rationalist governments and judicial authorities have been challenged by increasingly forceful claims made on behalf of divine law. For those who believe that reasonnot faithshould be the basis of politics and the law, proponents of divine law raise theoretical and practical concerns that must be...
Brief description:
Mark J. Lutz is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and author of Socrates' Education to Virtue: Learning the Love of the Noble.
Review Quotes:
Lutz has written the best first book to read on Plato's Laws. It is free of jargon, straightforward, and accessible in its presentation. Though the title suggests a narrow focus on laws that claim a divine origin, Lutz leads readers to see that the real subject is education to virtue. Highly recommended.
-- "Choice"