Statesman (dialogue)
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The Statesman (
The Sophist had begun with the question of whether the sophist, statesman, and philosopher were one or three, leading the
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The dialogue begins immediately after the Sophist ends, with Socrates (the elder) and Theodorus briefly reflecting on the discussion before the Eleatic Stranger proposes to begin a dialectical investigation with Socrates the Younger into the nature of the statesman. The Eleatic Stranger and Socrates the Younger resume using the method of division employed in the Sophist, pausing to reflect on dialectical methods and a myth similar to the myth of ages.[3] The interlocutors ultimately offer a complicated account of the statesman through a version of division that entails accounting for the object of inquiry 'by carving at the joints' like a 'sacrificial animal' (Statesman 287b-c).[3]
Interpretations
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Texts and translations
- Greek text at Perseus
- Plato: Statesman, Philebus, Ion. Greek with translation by Harold N. Fowler and W. R. M. Lamb. Loeb Classical Library 164. Harvard Univ. Press (originally published 1925).
- Fowler translation at Perseus
- Jowett translation with introduction at StandardEbooks
- Plato. Opera, volume I. Oxford Classical Texts. ISBN 978-0198145691
- Plato. Complete Works. Ed. J. M. Cooper and D. S. Hutchinson. Hackett, 1997. ISBN 978-0872203495
References
- ^ Henri Estienne (ed.), Platonis opera quae extant omnia, Vol. 2, 1578, p. 250.
- ^ Mary Louise Gill, Philosophos: Plato's Missing Dialogue, Oxford University Press, 2012.
- ^ a b Mitchell Miller, The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman, Parmenides Publishing, 2004.
- ^ Cooper and Hutchinson (1997). "Introduction to Politikos".
External links
- Works related to Statesman at Wikisource
- Quotations related to Statesman (dialogue) at Wikiquote
- Statesman, in a collection of Plato's Dialogues at Standard Ebooks
- Statesman, english translation by Benjamin Jowett public domain audiobook at LibriVox