the lawgivers
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Nicomachean Ethics (Greek)
lawgivers make the citizens good by training them in habits of right action—this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure;
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
Political figures who make citizens good by training them in habits of right action through legislation.
lawgivers make the citizens good by training them in habits of right action—this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure;
Orations
The tradition of lawgivers as a class, treated as another of the sources shaping human conceptions of the divine through prescription and command.
The lawgiver, then, let us for the present excuse from rendering account — an austere man, and himself one who calls others to account;
I mean that the kind belonging to the voluntary and persuasive is that of the poets, while that belonging to the necessary and prescriptive is that of the lawgivers;
Of the two kinds mentioned, which we should call the older in time among us Greeks — poetry or legislation — I could not say with assurance at present.