~The Philosopher in Plato’s <i>Statesman</i>

~The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman

The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman

 

 

 

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 harmonized act of realizing the mean.