Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman [Paperback]

This book is a philosophical analysis of Plato's dialogue, the Statesman.This book is a philosophical analysis of Plato's dialogue the Statesman. Dr Lane finds that rather than being transitional between the Republic and the Laws, the Statesman deserves a special place of its own SH the dialogue emerging as a text which proposes a new conception of knowlege, authority, and the relationship between them. This investigation transforms our understanding of the Statesman and its fellow dialogues.This book is a philosophical analysis of Plato's dialogue the Statesman. Dr Lane finds that rather than being transitional between the Republic and the Laws, the Statesman deserves a special place of its own SH the dialogue emerging as a text which proposes a new conception of knowlege, authority, and the relationship between them. This investigation transforms our understanding of the Statesman and its fellow dialogues.This book is a philosophical analysis of Plato's dialogue the Statesman. Dr. Lane finds that rather than being transitional between the Republic and the Laws, the Statesman deserves a special place of its own--the dialogue emerging as a text that proposes a new conception of knowledge, authority, and the relationship between them. This investigation transforms our understanding of the Statesman and its fellow dialogues.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; Sl#É