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Myth, metaphysics and dialectic in Plato's Statesman / David A White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, David A., 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Dialectic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Statesman and Metaphysics; 1 The Dialectical Road to Myth [257a-68d]; 2 The Cosmos: Motion, Matter, Measure [268d-74e]; 3 Paradigms: Knowledge and Reality [274e-83b]; 4 Measurement and Dialectic [283b-7b]; 5 The Art of Statecraft [287b-311c]; 6 The Good: Statesman and Philebus; 7 The Good and the Aporetic Structure of the Statesman; Epilogue: Statecraft, Metaphysics and the Laws; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-257) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-59716-0
- 1-317-09085-3
- 1-317-09084-5
- 1-281-20856-6
- 9786611208561
- 0-7546-8731-7
- 9781315597164
- OCLC:
- 317744558
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