M. S. LaneMethod and Politics in Plato's Statesman
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and note on text
Introduction: method and politics in Plato's Statesman
Part I. Method: 1. Introduction
2. The Sophist's use of example and division
3. The Statesman's use of example and division
4. The analysis of example
5. Conclusions
Part II. The Story as a Fulcrum of the Dialogue: 6. Introduction: story-telling and self-criticism
7. Telling the story
8. Criticising the story
Part III. Politics: 9. Introduction
10. Rivalry revisited: subordination of the arts to the mastery of the kairos
11. Rivalry renewed: the challenge and subordination of law
12. Political knowledge as weaving
13. Conclusions
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General index
Index locorum.
