Introduction to Studies on Plato’s Statesman

Autores

  • Thomas Slabon University of South Florida – Tampa – USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_S0

Palavras-chave:

Plato, Statesman, Studies

Resumo

Plato’s Statesman is an enigmatic dialogue. Any reader of this conversation between the Eleatic Stranger and Young Socrates must immediately confront a staggering array of interpretive puzzles. What is, for instance, the precise nature of the political expertise held up as the essential element of ideal political rule? Should the political expert be thought of as ruling solely by particularist decrees, or as also making use of general laws? Next, why does Plato rank imperfect constitutions as he does? And are these imperfect constitutions really constitutions in the first place? Furthermore, how does Plato’s method of division work in the dialogue, and how should we connect this method’s employment in the Statesman to its other instances in the rest of the Platonic corpus? How should we understand the Eleatic Stranger’s puzzling myth, and what role does it (and the other paradigms of political rule in the dialogue) play in the larger philosophical investigation? What ties together the Statesman as a single, unified dialogue in the first place, given the remarkable range of subjects Plato discusses?

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Referências

BEN-ASHER, S. (2024). Herds of Featherless Bipeds: Division and Privation in Plato’s Statesman In: PIERING, J.; RUDEBUSCH, G.; SLABON, T. (eds.). Studies on Plato’s Statesman, special issue of Archai, 34, suppl. 1.

MCKEEN, C. (2024). Law and Political Expertise in Plato’s Statesman In: PIERING, J.; RUDEBUSCH, G.; SLABON, T. (eds.). Studies on Plato’s Statesman, special issue ofArchai , 34, suppl. 1.

MÖBUS, F.; VLASITS, J. (2024). Division and Animal Sacrifice in Plato’s Statesman In: PIERING, J.; RUDEBUSCH, G.; SLABON, T. (eds.). Studies on Plato’s Statesman, special issue ofArchai , 34, suppl. 1.

REID, J. (2024). The Analysis of Constitutions in Plato’s Statesman In: PIERING, J.; RUDEBUSCH, G.; SLABON, T. (eds.). Studies on Plato’s Statesman, special issue ofArchai , 34, suppl. 1.

ROWE, C. (2024). Contemporary Politikoi [Statesmen] and Other Sophists in Plato’s Political Dialogues. In: PIERING, J.; RUDEBUSCH, G.; SLABON, T. (eds.). Studies on Plato’s Statesman, special issue ofArchai, 34, suppl. 1.

SPELIOTIS, E. (2024). Paradigm and Method in Plato’s Statesman In: PIERING, J.; RUDEBUSCH, G.; SLABON, T. (eds.). Studies on Plato’s Statesman, special issue ofArchai , 34, suppl. 1.

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Publicado

2025-02-18

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Slabon, T. (2025). Introduction to Studies on Plato’s Statesman. Revista Archai, (34), e034S0. https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_34_S0

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Studies on Plato’s Statesman