Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman
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Book III
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Cosmic Cycle
Cosmic Epochs
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Divine Bond
Divine Shepherd
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Due Measure
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Eternal Part
Gymnastic Trainers
Individual Living Thing
Kingly Art
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myth of the reversed cosmos interpretation
Nocturnal Council
opinion
philosophical myth analysis
Plato's Statesman
Platonic metaphysics
political philosophy theory
Republic VI
socrates
Statesman Myth
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True Opinion
True Statesman
Vice Versa
Wool Weaving
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Young Man
Young Socrates
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- ISBN 9781138276017
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
David A. White is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, USA.
