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Statesman

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 108 pages

Statesman is a late Platonic dialogue in which an Eleatic Stranger leads a discussion to define true statesmanship and political knowledge. It uses dialectical division, a cosmological myth, and the analogy of weaving to distinguish statesmanship from rival crafts. It is worth listening for its methodical inquiry into leadership and the limits of political expertise.

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STATESMAN
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
In the Phaedrus, the Republic, the Philebus, the
Parmenides, and the Sophist, we may observe the tendency
of Plato to combine two or more subjects or different
aspects of the same subject in a single dialogue. In the
Sophist and Statesman especially we note that the
discussion is partly regarded as an illustration of
method, and that analogies are brought from afar which
throw light on the main subject. And in his later writings

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Contents

  1. STATESMAN
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
  5. STATESMAN
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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