The Laws (...) contains his latest and ripest thought on the subjects which he had all through his life most at heart: ethics, education, and jurisprudence. En: The purpose of the whole is severely practical, and will not appeal to a reader who cares more for metaphysics and science than for morals and politics. In zijn werk Plato, The man and his work heeft Taylor in het hoofdstuk over de Wetten (blz. 463-497) sterk de neiging de tekst zo positief mogelijk te interpreteren.
