Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman

AvM. S. Lane

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

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Among Plato's works, the Statesman is usually seen as transitional between the Republic and the Laws. This book argues that the dialogue deserves a special place of its own. Whereas Plato is usually thought of as defending unchanging knowledge, Dr Lane demonstrates how, by placing change at the heart of political affairs, Plato reconceives the link between knowledge and authority. The statesman is shown to master the timing of affairs of state, and to use this expertise in managing the conflict of opposed civic factions. To this political argument corresponds a methodological approach which is seen to rely not only on the familiar method of 'division', but equally on the unfamiliar centrality of the use of 'example'. The demonstration that method and politics are interrelated transforms our understanding of the Statesman and its fellow dialogues.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-01-22
Mått:146 x 223 x 20 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Classical Studies
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521582292

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"Her book thus helps bring to light the range of interpretative issues that readers of this difficult dialogue must confront." Jacob Howland, International Journal of the Classical Tradition

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and note on text; Introduction: method and politics in Plato's Statesman; Part I. Method: 1. Introduction; 2. The Sophist's use of example and division; 3. The Statesman's use of example and division; 4. The analysis of example; 5. Conclusions; Part II. The Story as a Fulcrum of the Dialogue: 6. Introduction: story-telling and self-criticism; 7. Telling the story; 8. Criticising the story; Part III. Politics: 9. Introduction; 10. Rivalry revisited: subordination of the arts to the mastery of the kairos; 11. Rivalry renewed: the challenge and subordination of law; 12. Political knowledge as weaving; 13. Conclusions; Select bibliography; General index; Index locorum.