In this text, certain theses of Plato that were reflected in modern political philosophy are pointed out, specifically in the works of Hobbes, Mill, Bentham and Rousseau; and four questions are put to André Laks about his book Plato's Political Philosophy in the Light of the Laws:1 the first concerns the relationship between laws and preambles; the second questions the possibility that man, represented as a puppet moved by the thread of reason and that of irrational impulses, can become a divine puppet; the third points to the idea of the mixed constitution and the role played by mediation in which wisdom and liberty combine to form a good government; the fourth question concerns the generality of the laws and the particularity of the philosopher-king, for it seems that Plato misses the figure he described in the Republic.