Plato's "Statesman" revisited

This volume tackles both the apparent lack of unity and the perplexing philosophical content of the Statesman as it explores, in what is now Plato's second account, subsequent to that of the Republic, of what would constitute the best society, the role and nature of the statesman in it; the art...

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Otros Autores: Bossi, Beatriz, editor (editor), Robinson, Thomas M., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter [2018]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
Trends in Classics - Supplementary volumes ; 68.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Defining the Place of the Statesman
  • Taking Frustration Seriously. Reading Plato's Statesman as a Protreptic to Political Science / Larivée, Annie
  • The Multifocal Approach: The Statesman as the Key to Plato's Political Philosophy / Migliori, Maurizio
  • Part II: What Kind of 'Science' of Government?
  • Theoretical, not practical: the opening arguments of Plato's Politicus (Plt., 258e-259d) / Murr, Dimitri El
  • True and Correct in the Politicus / Casertano, Giovanni
  • Part III: Interpreting the Myth
  • Paradigm, Form and the Good in Plato's Statesman: The Myth Revisited / White, David A.
  • God and Cosmos in Politicus 269c-270a and Aristotle / Blyth, Dougal
  • Plato's Reign of Kronos: Proclus' Interpretation of the Myth in the Politicus / Calvo, José María Zamora
  • Demiurgy in Heavens. An Ancient Account in Plato's Statesman / Motta, Anna
  • Part IV: Measuring, Weaving and Women
  • The avoidance of errors, a sense of "due measure" / Molas, Josep Monserrat
  • On the Art of Weaving and the Act of Thinking in Plato's Statesman / Santos, Gislene Vale dos
  • Weaving the Polis. Reading Plato's Statesman (279a-283d) / Madrid, Nuria Sánchez
  • Plato's Stateswomen / Robinson, Thomas More
  • Part V: The Statesman and the Sophist
  • Mimesis in the Politicus / Palumbo, Lidia
  • The very difficult separation from the chorus of the greatest magician of all the sophists / Candiotto, Laura
  • Part VI: Wisdom and Law
  • On the Limits of Law and the Sovereignty of the Wise. Conjectures about the Primacy of Law in Plato's Statesman / Peixoto, Miriam C.D.
  • Part VII: Bonds and Virtues
  • Divine and Human Bonds: The Essence of the Art of Politics / Giorgini, Giovanni
  • On Virtue and Wisdom in the Protagoras, the Phaedo and the Politicus: One Thesis or Several? / Bossi, Beatriz
  • 'Moderation' and Courage in Plato's Politicus (305e-311c) / Rowe, Christopher
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index Locorum.