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The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman. Together with "Dialectical Education and Unwritten Teachings in Plato's Statesman".
Mitchell H. Miller
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Description for The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman. Together with "Dialectical Education and Unwritten Teachings in Plato's Statesman".
Paperback. In the "Statesman", Plato brings together his own crowning contributions to philosophical method, political theory, and drama. This study demonstrates how the "Statesman" is the culminating expression of Plato's lifelong effort, both in Athens and in the Academy, to bring metaphysical insight to the unending political crisis of his times. Num Pages: 186 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
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.
The original study left one question outstanding: what specifically, in the metaphysical order of things, motivated the nameless Visitor from Elea to abandon bifurcation for his consummating non-bifurcatory division of fifteen kinds ... Read more
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.
The original study left one question outstanding: what specifically, in the metaphysical order of things, motivated the nameless Visitor from Elea to abandon bifurcation for his consummating non-bifurcatory division of fifteen kinds ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Parmenides Publishing United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Las Vegas, United States
ISBN
9781930972162
SKU
V9781930972162
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About Mitchell H. Miller
Mitchell Miller, is professor of philosophy at Vassar College. He is also the author of Plato's 'Parmenides': The Conversion of the Soul.
Reviews for The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman. Together with "Dialectical Education and Unwritten Teachings in Plato's Statesman".
Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman . . . gives a detailed and sensitive reading of this dialogue as a dialogue, in which he sees Plato delivering a cautionary message to young Academics (represented by the Younger Socrates). Their crude reading of the Republic has led them to believe that they should champion dictatorship"". - Cambridge Journals