No. 72 (2025): Mayo-agosto
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Defining the Statesman by Thinking of the Dialectician? Notes on the Capabilities of Paradeigmata in Plato’s Statesman

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  • Lucas Álvarez
Lucas Álvarez
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Published 2025-02-19

Keywords

  • Plato,
  • statesman,
  • parádeigma,
  • philosopher,
  • dialectics

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Álvarez, L. (2025). Defining the Statesman by Thinking of the Dialectician? Notes on the Capabilities of Paradeigmata in Plato’s Statesman. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, 72, 41-66. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v720.2935
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Abstract

In the framework of the discussion about the potential identification of the statesman with the philosopher in the post-Republic Platonic dialogues, this paper focuses on the approach proposed in Statesman. Specifically, it focuses on the use of a methodological resource, parádeigma, to which the interlocutors appeal to define the statesman. In this sense, we contribute to the discussion by identifying a series of contact points that unite the characterization of the statesman with that of the philosopher-dialectician that emerges in Plato’s late works.

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