Sunday, 18 October 2026

Major works meeting

• Continuing Metamorphoses
• Starting from 4.390
• Ending around 5.245
• Next week we’ll continue Metamorphoses Book 5 and Book 6

Minor works meeting

• Continuing Statesman
• Starting from 293d
• Ending around 303a
• Next week we’ll continue Metamorphoses

Statesman reminder for next week:

[Elisa]: We talked about the “real” constitution, in terms of the “one in which the ruler has knowledge”. Then we spoke about laws: and how they get written (when the expert leaves instructions and goes away), but also how they can’t always be universally be just—because they can not apply to each individual and changing circumstances. We then talked about the possibility of changing the laws or contradicting the older ones. These changes can come about either by persuasion or force. If there is expertise then the use of the force is justified due to the benefits. Having said all this, we then went into discussing the different constitutions and their relations with the laws. What was five forms of constitutions became six: three in number and three in law following, however any of these are only in existence because of the need to imitate expertise, which laws take the form of.