Theoretical, not practical: the opening arguments of Plato’s Politicus (Plt., 258e–259d)

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Defining the Place of the Statesman
5. Taking Frustration Seriously. Reading Plato’s Statesman as a Protreptic to Political Science 11
6. The Multifocal Approach: The Statesman as the Key to Plato’s Political Philosophy 35
7. Part II: What Kind of ‘Science’ of Government?
8. Theoretical, not practical: the opening arguments of Plato’s Politicus (Plt., 258e–259d) 55
9. True and Correct in the Politicus 73
10. Part III: Interpreting the Myth
11. Paradigm, Form and the Good in Plato’s Statesman: The Myth Revisited 87
12. God and Cosmos in Politicus 269c–270a and Aristotle 107
13. Plato’s Reign of Kronos: Proclus’ Interpretation of the Myth in the Politicus 119
14. Demiurgy in Heavens. An Ancient Account in Plato’s Statesman 141
15. Part IV: Measuring, Weaving and Women
16. The avoidance of errors, a sense of «due measure» 159
17. On the Art of Weaving and the Act of Thinking in Plato’s Statesman 171
18. Weaving the Polis. Reading Plato’s Statesman (279a–283d) 183
19. Plato’s Stateswomen 195
20. Part V: The Statesman and the Sophist
21. Mimesis in the Politicus 209
22. The very difficult separation from the chorus of the greatest magician of all the sophists 231
23. Part VI: Wisdom and Law
24. On the Limits of Law and the Sovereignty of the Wise. Conjectures about the Primacy of Law in Plato’s Statesman 249
25. Part VII: Bonds and Virtues
26. Divine and Human Bonds: The Essence of the Art of Politics 265
27. On Virtue and Wisdom in the Protagoras, the Phaedo and the Politicus: One Thesis or Several? 287
28. ‘Moderation’ and Courage in Plato’s Politicus (305e–311c) 309
29. Bibliography 327
30. List of Contributors 341
31. Index Locorum 345