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Law and Political Expertise in Plato’s Statesman
Remarks made by the Eleatic Visitor at Statesman 293a-300e are often read as implying that laws are hopelessly defective in comparison with expert political knowledge. Specifically, laws seem inadequate to the task of capturing the variability, muta…
Contemporary Politikoi [Statesmen] and Other Sophists in Plato’s Political Dialogues
This paper argues that Plato in the Statesman consistently rejects all existing forms of constitution, separating off one, “the knowledgeable constitution,” from any other sort of rule, whether by a single individual, by a few, or by the many, and w…
The Analysis of Constitutions in Plato’s Statesman
This paper provides a framework for understanding how nonideal constitutions are better or worse imitations of the ideal constitution. My suggestion is that the nonideal constitutions imitate the skill of the political expert, which includes an epis…
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