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Statesman
Plato · Classical · c. 360 BCE
Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1871)
7 chapters
A late dialogue defining the true statesman as the master of the royal art — distinguishing genuine political knowledge from sophistic imitations.
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Contents
- 1The Question: What Is the Statesman?
- 2The Method of Division
- 3The Myth of the Reversed Cosmos
- 4The Paradigm of Weaving
- 5The Critique of Imitation Constitutions
- 6The Forms of Government
- 7The Royal Art and the Civic Weaving
