The philosopher in Plato's Statesman : together with "Dialectical education and unwritten teachings in Plato's Statesman"

by Mitchell Miller

In the Statesman, Plato brings together -- only to challenge and displace -- his own crowning contributions to philosophical method, political theory, and drama. In his 1980 study, reissued here, Mitchell Miller employs literary theory and conceptual analysis to expose the philosophical, political, and pedagogical conflict that is the underlying context of the dialogue, revealing that its chaotic variety of movements is actually a carefully harmonised act of realising the mean. The original study left one question outstanding: what specifically, in the metaphysical order of things, motivated the nameless Visitor from Elea to abandon bifurcation for his consummating non-bifurcatory division of fifteen kinds at the end of the dialogue? Miller addressed that question in a separate essay, first published in 1999 and reprinted here. In it, he opens the horizon of interpretation to include the new metaphysics of the Parmenides, the Philebus, and the unwritten teachings. This study demonstrates how the Statesman is the culminating expression of Plato's lifelong effort, both in Athens and in the Academy, to bring metaphysical insight to the unending political crisis of his times.

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書名 The philosopher in Plato's Statesman : together with "Dialectical education and unwritten teachings in Plato's Statesman"
著作者等 Miller, Mitchell H.
出版元 Parmenides
刊行年月 2004
ページ数 xxxiii, 186 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 1930972164
NCID BA70089410
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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