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The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman (Hardcover, 1980 ed.)
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The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman (Hardcover, 1980 ed.)
Series: Nijhoff Classical Philosophy Library, 2
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others in his discipline tend not to bring their studies to bear on
the substance of the dialogues. Conversely, philosophical
interpreters have generally felt free to approach the extensive
logical and ontological, cosmological, and political doctrines of
the later dialogues without concern for questions of literary style
s and form. Given, moreover, the equally sharp distinction between
the diSCiplines of philosophy and cultural history, it has been too
easy to treat this bulk of doctrine without a pointed sense of the
specific historical audience to which it is addressed. As a result,
the pervasive tendency has been the reverse of that which has
dominated the reading of the early dialogues: here we tend to
neglect drama and pedagogy and to focus exclusively on
philosophical substance. Both in general and particularly in regard
to the later dialogues, the difficulty is that our predispositions
have the force of self-fulfilling prophecy. Are we sure that the
later Plato's apparent loss of interest in the dramatic is not, on
the contrary, a reflection of our limited sense of the integrity of
drama and sub stance, form and content? What we lack eyes for, of
course, we will not see. The basic purpose of this essay is to
develop eyes, as it were, for that integrity. The best way to do
this, I think, is to take a later dialogue and to try to read it as
a whole of form, content, and communicative function."
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