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Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman

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Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman

DOI link for Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman

Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman book

ByDavid A. White
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 29 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315597164
Pages 288 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315597164
SubjectsHumanities, Politics & International Relations
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White, D. (2007). Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315597164

Plato's dialogue The Statesman has often been found structurally puzzling by commentators because of its apparent diffuseness and disjointed transitions. In this book David White interprets the dialogue in ways which account for this problematic structure, and which also connect the primary themes of the dialogue with two subsequent dialogues The Philebus and The Laws. The central interpretive focus of the book is the extended myth, sometimes called the 'myth of the reversed cosmos'. As a result of this interpretative approach, White argues that The Statesman can be recognized (a) as both internally coherent and also profound in implication-the myth is crucial in both regards - and (b) as integrally related to the concerns of Plato's later dialogues.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

The Statesman and Metaphysics

chapter 1|18 pages

The Dialectical Road to Myth [257a–68d]

chapter 2|24 pages

The Cosmos

Motion, Matter, Measure [268d–74e]

chapter 3|20 pages

Paradigms

Knowledge and Reality [274e–83b]

chapter 4|16 pages

Measurement and Dialectic [283b–7b]

chapter 5|34 pages

The Art of Statecraft [287b–311c]

chapter 6|22 pages

The Good

Statesman and Philebus

chapter 7|42 pages

The Good and the Aporetic Structure of the Statesman

chapter |30 pages

Epilogue Statecraft, Metaphysics and the Laws

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