The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman
others in his discipline tend not to bring their studies to bear on the substance of the dialogues. Conversely, philosophical interpreters have generally felt free to approach the extensive logical and ontological, cosmological, and political doctrines of the later dialogues without concern for ques...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1980, 1980
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1980 |
| Series: | Nijhoff Classical Philosophy Library
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Table of Contents:
- I. The Dramatic Context
- 1. Dramatic situation: the trial of Socrates
- 2. Dramatis personae: antipathy, eagerness, silence
- 3. The stranger from Elea
- 4. The agreement to begin
- II. The Initial Diairesis (258b–267c)
- 1. Formal structure of the method; the apparent accord (258b–261e)
- 2. Young Socrates’ error; the value of bifurcatory diairesis (261e–264b)
- 3. The closing bifurcations; jokes and problems (264b–267c)
- III. The Digressions on Substance and Method (267c–287b)
- A. The first digression: the myth of the divine shepherd (267c–277a)
- B. The second digression: paradigm and the mean (277a–287b)
- IV. The Final Diairesis (287b–311c)
- a. The change in the form of diairesis (287b ff.)
- b. The first phase: the indirectly responsible arts, makers of instruments (287b–289c)
- c. The second phase, part one: the directly responsible arts, subaltern servants (289c–290e)
- d. The digression: philosophy and ordinary opinion; statesmanship and actual political order (291a–303d)
- e. Resumption of the diairesis (second phase, part two): the true aides (303d–305e)
- f. The third phase: the statesman as weaver; the virtues and the mean (305e–311c)
- Notes
- Index of Historical Persons
- Index of References to Platonic Passages