Plato's waking state : Interweaving the 'Republic', the 'statesman', and the 'Laws' [Hardcover]

Grigorios Dikaios seeks a new answer to the old and highly controversial question of how Plato's three major dialogues - 'Republic', 'Statesman', and 'Laws' - relate to one another. Are the 'Laws', Plato's late masterwork, (not) a refutation of the theses defended in the 'Republic'? Is the 'Statesman' a bridging dialogue - a bridge between 'Republic' and 'Laws'? Why is Socrates entirely absent from the 'Laws'? Drawing on the often overlooked distinction between dreaming and waking state (ὄναρ / ὀνειρώττει&#95