The present study comes as a continuation of the one we published in 2017, titled "Plato: Laws - Book A'. Towards a theological reading of Politics." In this work, we examine the second book of the Laws, which we title "Plato: Laws - Book B'. The artistic and aesthetic foundations of Politics." While transitioning from the first to the second book, we assumed we would operate under the principle of thematic continuity, but along the way, we encountered surprises. Plato in the second book of the "Laws" appears as a captivating invader of thought, a revolutionary disruptor of what is considered certainty, and ultimately a judge of himself.

Undoubtedly, it is the same figure with his fascinating dialectical periodizations, but with choices that highlight the journey of the spirit from the perspective of the unfulfilled and contemplating upheavals as the essence of spirituality. While everyone would expect him to reveal, after the clarifying theological references of the first book, the objective civic measure of justice, we observe him being attracted by the stimuli that the artistic concern and the search for aesthetic transitions provoke in the human intellect.

The surprises follow one another. And while he indeed maintains his basic constants regarding Ethics and Politics, he inscribes them in a meta-ethical and a meta-political field respectively. Without a doubt, we consider that in writing the second book he was faced with explosive dilemmas and compressive stakes.