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Statesman — Plato

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Statesman

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Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

A continuation of the Sophist: the Eleatic Stranger and the young Socrates seek to define the statesman. Along the way come the myth of the two eras of the cosmos, the paradigm of weaving, the theory of due measure and a classification of regimes. It concludes that the ideal rule would be that of the wise man above the laws, and that, failing him, written laws are the best substitute.

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Authentic: modern scholarship accepts it almost unanimously as Plato's work.

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English

  • Plato: Complete Works — Plato

    Plato: Complete Works

    Hackett, 1997

    Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)

    ISBN 0872203492

    Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas

  • Plato VIII: Statesman, Philebus, Ion — Plato

    Plato VIII: Statesman, Philebus, Ion

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1975

    Translation: Harold N. Fowler y W. R. M. Lamb

    ISBN 9780674991828

    Loeb Classical Library 164, bilingüe (1.ª ed. 1925; reimpresión)

  • Statesman

    Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., vol. 4; traducción de dominio público

Español

  • El político o de la soberanía

    Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1872

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Obras completas de Platón, tomo 6; traducción de dominio público

  • Diálogos V: Parménides, Teeteto, Sofista, Político

    Gredos, 1997

    ISBN 9788424912796

    Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 117

Other works by Plato

Sources

  • Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).

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