Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman. - LANE, M.S.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Melissa Lane sees the ?Statesman?, despite its difficulties, as a whole, unified by its concern with political expertise and its emphasis on the methods of investigation. In her account method holds the dialogue together since the methods of investigation turn out to reflect on the method of the political technique itself. Her book thus aims to weave together the concerns of two usually opposed groups of scholars, the concern with methodology of analytical scholars, a tribe once ruled by Gilbert Ryle, and the concern with the form and unity of the ?Statesman? shown in Straussian discussions. Indeed, Lane's use of Straussian scholarship on the ?Statesman? is generally fair and thorough, an untypical virtue in a Cambridge scholar of ancient philosophy. Here I will focus on the book's principal contributions: its new interpretations of the Eleatic Stranger's method and of the role of temporality in the dialogue. Lane's accounts of the tale of the age of Kronos, of the rule of law, and of gender and the example ...
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1998Uitgever: University Press229 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0521582296ISBN-13: 9780521582292Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge, 1998. XIII,229p. Hardbound with dust wrps. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: LANE, M.S.,] [Uitgever: University Press] [Jaar: 1998] [Titel: Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman.]
