Who is the Athenian Stranger in Plato’s Laws?
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Who is the Athenian Stranger in Plato’s Laws? Few commentators asked themselves this question, as if it were an irrelevant fact. However, as this is Plato’s only dialogue without the presence of Socrates, it must be an important question. Therefore, my aim in this article will be to put forward a hypothesis about the identity of the Athenian Stranger in the Laws which, if true, will enable a whole new reading of the dialogue. To this end, the article will be divided into two parts: in the first part, I will present the only two proposals that I have been able to find about the identity of the Athenian Stranger among the few commentators who have even posed this question; in the second part, I will present my own hypothesis, trying to show how there is a series of dramatic details in the dialogue that corroborate it, as well as developing the hermeneutical consequences that result from accepting it.
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