Sayre, Kenneth M., 1928-

Metaphysics and method in Plato's Statesman [[Book] /] Kenneth M. Sayre. - 1st.ed. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-247) and indexes.

Becoming better dialecticians -- Collection in the Phaedrus and the Sophist -- Division in the Phaedrus and the Sophist -- Collection yields to illustrative paradigms -- The weaver paradigm -- The final definition -- Excess and deficiency in general -- The great and the small in Plato's dialogues -- The generation of everything good and fair -- Accuracy in the art of dialectic -- Division according to forms -- The metaphysics of division.

All age.

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Plato. Statesman.


Political science--Philosophy.
Dialectic.

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