Method and politics in Plato's Statesman

M.S. Lane

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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[目次]

  • 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.

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書名 Method and politics in Plato's Statesman
著作者等 Lane, M. S.
Garnsey Peter
Horrocks G.C. (University of Cambridge UK)
Hunter R.L.
Millett Martin
Osborne R.G.
Reeve M.D.
Sedley D. N.
Lane M.S.
シリーズ名 Cambridge classical studies
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1998
ページ数 xiii, 229 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0521582296
NCID BA34083024
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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