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Herdsmen and Stargazers: the Science of Philosophy in Plato's Statesman
In: Polis: the journal for ancient greek political thought, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 534-549
ISSN: 2051-2996
Abstract
Together with the Sophist, Plato's Statesman is often taken to introduce and develop a new scientific form of theoretical inquiry, represented by the Eleatic visitor. This paper draws on recent scholarship on the Sophist and evaluates the reliability of this scientific approach when applied to political matters in the Statesman. It analyzes how the Eleatic visitor identifies and tries to mend two central mistakes in his own initial definition of the statesman and argues that the visitor's treatment of three related topics – eugenics, tyranny and law – makes his line of reasoning inconsistent. Relying on Plato's dramatic use of similar forms of argumentation elsewhere, it suggests that the Statesman is not designed to defend the political significance of the visitor's new form of scientific philosophy, but that its purpose instead is to test and to critically examine the consequences of this line of inquiry.
Sophistry and political philosophy: Protagoras' challenge to Socrates: Robert C. Bartlett University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2016, 272pp., ISBN: 9780226394282
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Band 17, Heft S2, S. 98-101
ISSN: 1476-9336
Magic — Religion: Some marginal notes to an old problem
In: Ethnos, Band 22, Heft 3-4, S. 109-119
ISSN: 1469-588X
The germ of life: Outlines to a Study of African Cosmology
In: Ethnos, Band 21, Heft 1-2, S. 95-104
ISSN: 1469-588X