Archai Supplementum - Studies on Plato’s Statesman - just published

[Gabriele Cornelli]

The Revista Archai - Archai journal is delighted to announce a new Archai Supplementum on Plato's Statesman has just been published:

https://www.scielo.br/j/archai/i/2024.v34suppl1/

Plato’s Statesman is an enigmatic dialogue. Any reader of this conversation between the Eleatic Stranger and Young Socrates must immediately confront a staggering array of interpretive puzzles. What is, for instance, the precise nature of the political expertise held up as the essential element of ideal political rule? Should the political expert be thought of as ruling solely by particularist decrees, or as also making use of general laws? Next, why does Plato rank imperfect constitutions as he does? And are these imperfect constitutions really constitutions in the first place? Furthermore, how does Plato’s method of division work in the dialogue, and how should we connect this method’s employment in the Statesman to its other instances in the rest of the Platonic corpus? How should we understand the Eleatic Stranger’s puzzling myth, and what role does it (and the other paradigms of political rule in the dialogue) play in the larger philosophical investigation? What ties together the Statesman as a single, unified dialogue in the first place, given the remarkable range of subjects Plato discusses? (...) This Supplementum is the result of the 16th annual West Coast Plato Workshop, which was held in Flagstaff, Arizona at Northern Arizona University on June 23-25th, 2023.
(From the Introduction, by Thomas Slabon)

CONTRIBUTORS:

Contemporary Politikoi [Statesmen] and Other Sophists in Plato’s Political Dialogues
Rowe, Christopher

The Analysis of Constitutions in Plato’s Statesman
Reid, Jeremy

Law and Political Expertise in Plato’s Statesman
McKeen, Catherine

Paradigm and method in Plato’s Statesman
Speliotis, Evanthia

Herds of Featherless Bipeds: Division and Privation in Plato’s Statesman
Ben-Asher, Sarale

Division and Animal Sacrifice in Plato’s Statesman
Möbus, Freya & Vlasits, Justin

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Gabriele Cornelli (he/him/his)
Full Professor in Ancient Philosophy - Philosophy Department
Postgraduate Programme in Metaphysics
Archai UNESCO Chair on the Plural Origins of the Western Thought - Coordinator
Universidade de Brasília