By Kenneth M. Sayre
ISBN-10: 0511584598
ISBN-13: 9780511584596
ISBN-10: 0521866081
ISBN-13: 9780521866088
First and foremost of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed a number of strange-sounding theses to Plato. Generations of Plato students have assumed that those couldn't be present in the dialogues. In heated arguments, they've got debated the importance of those claims, a few arguing that they constituted an 'unwritten instructing' and others conserving that Aristotle used to be improper in attributing them to Plato. In his past book-length research on Plato's overdue ontology, Kenneth Sayre confirmed that, regardless of adjustments in terminology, those claims correspond to topics built through Plato within the Parmenides and the Philebus. during this learn, he indicates how this correspondence might be prolonged to key, yet formerly imprecise, passages within the Statesman. He additionally examines the interpretative results for different sections of that discussion, rather these excited by the perform of dialectical inquiry.
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E. L. Owen (1973), the Eleatic Stranger, in comparing their inquiry into statesmanship with a “school spelling exercise,” is suggesting that the chief aim of the inquiry “is not to spell out the one thing, statecraft, but to make the group generally better at spelling – better dialecticians, that is, on any subject proposed” (p. 350). Becoming Better Dialecticians 31 better able to make discoveries by dividing things according to Forms. Here is the passage leading up to this observation. 286B4 286C 286D 286E Let us recall the reason why we have said all these things on these topics.
Other commentators have noted that the initial definition of statesmanship gets off to a rocky start. Mitchell Miller, for example, has observed that the diaeresis leading up to the Myth of Cronus “yields an inadequate definition of statesmanship”4 and that the reasons for this inadequacy have to do with the method it employs. Two main faults of the initial procedure, in Miller’s view, are that it relies exclusively on dichotomous division (p. 16) – a matter we take up in Chapter 6 – and that it “is founded on a popular image – the herdsman or shepherd – which in fact misrepresents the statesman” (p.
This emphasis on collection in its first appearance by that name may help us appreciate the significance of its effective disappearance from the methodology employed in the Statesman by the Eleatic Stranger. When we ourselves perform a collection, as it were, over these three descriptions of collection, what we find as a common property is that each describes a movement from plurality to unity. At 249C, the process goes from many perceptions (k pollän) to a unity (e«v n) brought together by reasoning.
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