Plato's >Statesman

This volume tackles both the apparent lack of unity and the perplexing philosophical content of the Statesman as it explores, in what is now Plato's second account, subsequent to that of the Republic, of what would constitute the best society, the role and nature of the statesman in it; the art of governance of it; the role and nature of its laws; the role and status of its female citizens; and how the virtues are interwoven within it, along with many other topics, including (in a major Myth) that of the origins of the universe and of humankind. Coming as they do from often widely differing hermeneutical traditions, the authors in the volume offer responses to substantive and intriguing questions that the dialogue raises which are frequently divergent, but by that very token of much value in any attempt to interpret a complex and multifaceted work.

Author: Beatriz Cecilia Bossi
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 07/06/2020
Pages: 367
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9783110710168
ISBN10: 3110710161
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical

About the Author

Beatriz Bossi, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Thomas M. Robinson, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.