Letters and models: on the Statesman 277d–278e

Abstrakt

The paper discusses nature of dialectics sketched in Plato, Polit. 277d-278e. It clarifies the usage of models (paradeigma) in this section and offers a new understanding of what dialectics can and cannot do within the text.

Klíčová slova

• Plato
• Statesman
• dialectics
• models
• rationality