Name: Statesman
SKU: 58613934
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Author: Jowett, Benjamin ; Plato
ISBN: 9781973857655

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Translated by

Benjamin Jowett

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Author

Jowett, Benjamin ; Plato

Language

English

Pages

134

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.7 cm

Weight

0.19 kg.

ISBN13

9781973857655

Synopsis "Statesman"

The search after the Statesman, which is carried on, like that for the Sophist, by the method of dichotomy, gives an opportunity for many humorous and satirical remarks. Several of the jests are mannered and laboured: for example, the turn of words with which the dialogue opens; or the clumsy joke about man being an animal, who has a power of two-feet-both which are suggested by the presence of Theodorus, the geometrician. There is political as well as logical insight in refusing to admit the division of mankind into Hellenes and Barbarians: 'if a crane could speak, he would in like manner oppose men and all other animals to cranes.' The pride of the Hellene is further humbled, by being compared to a Phrygian or Lydian. Plato glories in this impartiality of the dialectical method, which places birds in juxtaposition with men, and the king side by side with the bird- catcher; king or vermin-destroyer are objects of equal interest to science (compare Parmen.);

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