PLATONOVA FILOZOFIJA KAO ZAČETAK PRAVNE ZNANOSTI
PLATO’S PHILOSOPHY AS A BEGINNING OF LAW SCIENCE

Summary/Abstract: This work presents the result of thorough reading of Plato’s dialogues, and it is focused towards emphasizing the role of Plato’s philosophy in selecting law science as independent science. By accentuating disproportion between theory and practice of antique time (as seen today as well) Plato indicated the necessity of separate research in the domain of ethic and law but through politics. Thus he partially covered up the essence of his message: people can be better if they want to. In order to be better they need a frame designed as a state which they must to create on their own. Such message could have also meant a political change. Therefore it had been wise to present it in a form of dialogue between imaginary characters and an imaginary polis so that the author would not have been in disgrace of powerful man as happened to Plato’s teacher Socrates.

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