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Plato's "Statesman" revisited / edited by Beatriz Bossi and Thomas M. Robinson

Published
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 360 pages).
Additional Creators
Bossi, Beatriz, 1957- and Robinson, Thomas M.
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Language Note
In English.
Contents
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
Summary
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 of governance of it; the role and nature of its laws; the role and status of its female citizens; and how the virtues are interwoven within it, along with many other topics, including (in a major Myth) that of the origins of the universe and of humankind. Coming as they do from often widely differing hermeneutical traditions, the authors in the volume offer responses to substantive and intriguing questions that the dialogue raises which are frequently divergent, but by that very token of much value in any attempt to interpret a complex and multifaceted work.
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ISBN
9783110605549 (electronic book)
3110605546 (electronic book)
9783110604917 (electronic book)
3110604914 (electronic book)
3110604639
9783110604634
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Note
"This book consists of a selection of papers presented at the "II International Spring Plato Seminar" (25-26 April 2016, Facultad de Filosofia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) on Plato's "Politicus" and some other authors who were invited to contribute to this volume (namely, A. Larivée, M. Migliori and D. White)."--Page 1.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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