| Description |
1 online resource (x, 293 pages) |
| Series |
The Plato Dialogue Project ; [2] |
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Plato dialogue project.
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| Contents |
Introduction: the significance of Plato's Statesman / Pano Dimas, Susan Sauvé Meyer, Melissa Lane -- Stucture and methods of the dialogue / Susan Sauvé Meyer -- An overview of this volume / Melissa Lane -- Trailhead: 257a1-259d6 / Gavin Lawrence -- Defining the statesman by division: 259d7-268d4 / Fabián Mié -- The myth and what it achieves: 268d5-277c6 / Gábor Betegh -- Learning from models: 277c7-283a9 / David Bronstein -- Plate on normative measurement: 283b1-287b3 / Rachel Barney -- Civic function and the taxonomy of skills: 287b4-290e9 / Amber D. Carpenter -- Abov the law and out for justice: 291a1-297b4 / Franco V. Trivigno -- Ruling with (and without) laws: 297b5-303d3 / Christoph Horn -- Statecraft as a ruling, caring, and weaving dunamis: 303d4-305e7 / Melissa Lane -- Weaving together natural courage and moderation: 305e8-308b9 / Rachana Kamtekar -- Kingly intertwinement: 308b10-311c10 / Dimitri El Murr |
| Summary |
"Plato's Statesman reconsiders many questions familiar to readers of the Republic: questions in political theory - such as the qualifications for the leadership of a state and the best from of constitution (politeia) - as well as questions of philosophical methodology and epistemology. Instead of the theory of Forms that is the centrepiece of the epistemology of the Republic, the emphasis here is on the dialectical practice of collection and division (diairesis), in whose service the interlocutors also deploy the ancillary methods of myth and of models (paradeigmata). Plato here introduces the doctrine of due measure (to metrion) and a conception of statecraft (politikē) as an architectonic expertise that governs subordinate disciplines such as rhetoric and the military - doctrines later developed by Aristotle. Readers will find a sustained defence of the importance of expertise (technē or epistēmē) in the conduct of affairs of state, a robust (although not unqualified) defence of the rule of law, and an unsparing but nuanced critique of democratic government. The chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive and detailed philosophical engagement with the entirety of Plato's wide-ranging dialogue, with successive chapters devoted to the sections of the dialogue as it unfolds, and an introduction that places the dialogue in the context of Plato's philosophy as a whole. While not a commentary in the traditional sense, the volume engages with Plato's Statesman in its entirety"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on January 7, 2022) |
| Subject |
Plato. Statesman.
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| SUBJECT |
Statesman (Plato) fast |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dimas, Panos, editor.
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Lane, M. S. (Melissa S.), editor.
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Meyer, Susan Sauvé, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192653345 |
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0192653342 |
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9780191924705 |
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0191924709 |
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