Dialogue

 1 Intro|        dialogue. In the Sophist and Statesman especially we note that
 2 Intro|            gods (compare Laws).~The Statesman has lost the grace and beauty
 3 Intro|             The idea of the king or statesman and the illustration of
 4 Intro|       writing.~The search after the Statesman, which is carried on, like
 5 Intro|            plan of the Politicus or Statesman may be briefly sketched
 6 Intro|            once more to the king or statesman, and proceed to contrast
 7 Intro|          education, and the king or statesman completes the political
 8 Intro|            they have delineated the Statesman and Philosopher, as well
 9 Intro|            They propose to take the Statesman after the Sophist; his path
10 Intro|          the two shall we place the Statesman? Or rather, shall we not
11 Intro|        first ask, whether the king, statesman, master, householder, practise
12 Intro|            the science of the king, statesman, and householder is one
13 Intro|          managing of herds. And the Statesman is not a groom, but a herdsman,
14 Intro|          the breed; and the king or statesman has the care of animals
15 Intro|          should than have taken the Statesman and set him over the ‘bipes
16 Intro|           with the exception of the Statesman; but if we say ‘managing’
17 Intro|              whether the art of the statesman or the art of weaving or
18 Intro|           And our enquiry about the Statesman in like manner is intended
19 Intro|            us return to our king or statesman, and transfer to him the
20 Intro|              but not to the king or statesman. Further, there are small
21 Intro| distinguished from the true king or statesman. And here I will interpose
22 Intro|          the science of the king or statesman.~Once more we will endeavour
23 Intro|           Stranger, of the king and statesman, no less than of the Sophist,
24 Intro|           principal subjects in the Statesman may be conveniently embraced
25 Intro|      genuineness of the Sophist and Statesman, which can hardly be assumed
26 Intro|        between the mythology of the Statesman and the Timaeus, and between
27 Intro|       nothing truer;’ or, as in the Statesman, he describes his work as
28 Intro|         dialectical interest of the Statesman seems to contend in Plato’
29 Intro|      descriptive titles—either the ‘Statesman,’ or ‘Concerning Method.’
30 Intro|            in the Sophist or in the Statesman. The Sophist contains four
31 Intro|          detect the Sophist. In the Statesman the king or statesman is
32 Intro|           the Statesman the king or statesman is discovered by a similar
33 Intro|          distinctly asserted in the Statesman of Plato. The too much and
34 Intro|            than in the words of the Statesman:—‘If you think more about
35 Intro|          his right hand;’ so in the Statesman, the king or statesman is
36 Intro|          the Statesman, the king or statesman is the dialectician, who,
37 Intro|          the spirit of Plato in the Statesman. But he soon falls, like
38 Intro|            actual life. Thus in the Statesman, as in the Laws, we have
39 Intro|          also the only true king or statesman. In the execution of his
40 Intro|          bond of states. But in the Statesman of Plato, as in the New
41 Intro|            movement impossible.~The statesman who builds his hope upon
42 Intro|           IV. The bitterness of the Statesman is characteristic of Plato’
43 Intro|          paradoxical element in the Statesman which delights in reversing
44 Intro|         dialogues, the rival of the statesman, but assumes his form. Plato
45 Intro|             passage (Laws).~VI. The Statesman is naturally connected with
46 Intro|             concerning the king and statesman. We perceive, however, that
47 Intro|       Eristic, secondly, of a false statesman. There are several lesser
48 Intro|        projected ‘Philosopher.’~The Statesman stands midway between the
49 Intro|             both in the Timaeus and Statesman. The same ingenious arts
50 Intro|     treatment of the subject in the Statesman is fragmentary, and the
51 Intro|            preceding dialogues, the Statesman seems to approximate in
52 Intro|             of the narrative in the Statesman. The virtuous tyrant is
53 Intro|      genuineness of the Sophist and Statesman, if they had been compared
54 Intro|           defending the Sophist and Statesman may be given here.~1. The
55 State|                                     STATESMAN~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
56 State|          you the delineation of the Statesman and of the Philosopher,
57 State|         Sophist.~SOCRATES: Sophist, statesman, philosopher! O my dear
58 State|             proceed either with the Statesman or with the Philosopher,
59 State|              then, I think that the Statesman naturally follows next in
60 State|            discover the path of the Statesman? We must find and separate
61 State|           whole.~STRANGER: And are ‘statesman,’ ‘king,’ ‘master,’ or ‘
62 State|          same—statesmanship and the statesman—the kingly science and the
63 State|             True.~STRANGER: But the statesman is not a tender of individuals—
64 State|      STRANGER: And of which has the Statesman charge,—of the mixed or
65 State|            have come to produce our Statesman and ruler, and set him like
66 State|       definition of the name of the Statesman’s art.~YOUNG SOCRATES: By
67 State|           out the true image of the Statesman? and that we cannot reveal
68 State|     delineation of the king and the statesman in our previous discourse.~
69 State|         were asked about a king and statesman of the present cycle and
70 State|          perfect description of the statesman we must define the nature
71 State|           included or mentioned the Statesman; and we did not observe
72 State|       suitable term to apply to the Statesman; we should use a name which
73 State|             then we may wrap up the Statesman with the rest, as the argument
74 State|     management is the true king and statesman?~YOUNG SOCRATES: I think,
75 State|        completed the account of the Statesman.~STRANGER: Would that we
76 State|            as before the art of the Statesman was derived from the State;
77 State|            would not the art of the Statesman and the aforesaid art of
78 State|           But if the science of the Statesman disappears, the search for
79 State|             not admitted, neither a statesman nor any other man of action
80 State|            is our enquiry about the Statesman intended only to improve
81 State|      thinking. Let us return to our Statesman, and apply to his case the
82 State|       certainly not the work of the Statesman, but of the carpenter, potter,
83 State|          weaver, rather than of the Statesman.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
84 State|           not to be assigned to the Statesman’s art.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly
85 State|     separated from the true king or Statesman, if we are ever to see daylight
86 State|             knowledge and is a true Statesman, will do many things within
87 State|             are able, like the true Statesman?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
88 State|      capable of being united by the statesman, the kingly art blends and
89 State|           it be?~STRANGER: Only the Statesman and the good legislator,
90 State|           Stranger, of the king and statesman, no less than of the Sophist,