Plato's Statesman

A Philosophical Discussion

Panos Dimas, Melissa Lane, Susan Sauvé Meyer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289829-6 (ISBN)

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This is the second volume in the Plato Dialogue Project series: it is devoted to the Statesman, and offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of that dialogue. A team of scholars scrutinize the Statesman section by section, bringing to the forefront each one of the dialogue's many themes.

Plato's Statesman, A Philosophical Discussion, is the second volume in the Plato Dialogue Project series. Like the volume before it, Plato's Philebus, A Philosophical Discussion, it offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of the entire dialogue it treats. The present volume divides the Statesman into argumentatively self-contained sections, each one of which is scrutinized thoroughly.

This style of treatment proves particularly useful for the Statesman, an acutely perplexing dialogue that deals with many and seemingly unconnected themes-such as leadership of a state and the best from of constitution (politeia), philosophical methodology and epistemology, the doctrine of due measure (to metrion), the dialectical practice of collection and division and ancillary investigative methods such as the use of myth and models (paradeigmata).

The present volume discusses all issues the dialogue raises while abstaining from making an overarching claim on the dialogue as a whole, other than the one implied by the notion that all its parts are interrelated, equally important philosophically, and together constitute a unified whole. The aim is to bring to the forefront each one of the dialogue's many themes and devote to it the attention that will permit it to stake its claim to be part of a unified philosophical work. In this respect, the present volume challenges the readers to come to their own view on how the dialogue hangs together as a whole, but only after having gone through a comprehensive philosophical discussion of and reflection on its constitutive parts.

Panos Dimas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, and chair of the Steering Board of the Plato Dialogue Project. He is a former Mellon Graduate Fellow, Princeton, Fellow at Seeger Centre for Hellenic Studies, Princeton; and Director of the Norwegian School at Athens. He works primarily in Ancient Philosophy, in the areas of Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, and has published several articles on Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Director of the University Center for Human Values, and associated faculty in Classics and in Philosophy, at Princeton University. A Guggenheim Fellow in classics, she taught previously at Cambridge, and has held visiting positions at the American Academy in Rome, ANU, Auckland, Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford. Susan Sauvé Meyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a former editor of the journal Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. Her publications include Aristotle on Moral Responsibility (Blackwell 1993; 2011 OUP), Ancient Ethics (Routledge 2008), and Plato: Laws, Books 1 and 2 in the Clarendon Plato Series (OUP 2015).

1: Introduction
Panos Dimas: The significance of Plato's Statesman
Susan Sauvé Meyer: Structure and methods of the dialogue
Melissa Lane: An overview of this volume
2: Gavin Lawrence: Trailhead: 257a1-259d6
3: Fabián Mié: Defining the statesman by division: 259d7-268d4
4: Gábor Betegh: The myth and what it achieves: 268d5-277c6
5: David Bronstein: Learning from models: 277c7-283a9
6: Rachel Barney: Plato on normative measurement: 283b1-287b3
7: Amber D. Carpenter: Civic function and the taxonomy of skills: 287b4-290e9
8: Franco V. Trivigno: Above the law and out for justice: 291a1-297b4
9: Christoph Horn: Ruling with (and without) laws: 297b5-303d3
10: Melissa Lane: Statecraft as a ruling, caring, and weaving dunamis: 303d4-305e7
11: Rachana Kamtekar: Weaving together natural courage and moderation: 305e8-308b9
12: Dimitri El Murr: Kingly intertwinement: 308b10-311c10

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Plato Dialogue Project
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 243 mm
Gewicht	586 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-289829-9 / 0192898299
ISBN-13	978-0-19-289829-6 / 9780192898296
Zustand	Neuware