By Mitchell Miller
Within the Statesman, Plato brings together--only to problem and displace--his personal crowning contributions to philosophical procedure, political concept, and drama. In his 1980 examine, reprinted right here, Mitchell Miller employs literary concept and conceptual research to show the philosophical, political, and pedagogical clash that's the underlying context of the discussion, revealing that its chaotic number of hobbies is really a delicately harmonized act of understanding the suggest. the unique examine left one query amazing: what in particular, within the metaphysical order of items, inspired the anonymous customer from Elea to desert bifurcation for his consummating non-bifurcatory department of fifteen varieties on the finish of the discussion? Miller addressed in a separate essay, first released in 1999 and reprinted right here. In it, he opens the horizon of interpretation to incorporate the hot metaphysics of the Parmenides, the Philebus, and the "unwritten teachings."
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It is important to note that this birth is not the same as an immediate acceptance of the express doctrines set forth in the dialogues. It is rather the achievement of the freedom required in order to examine both the interlocutor’s immediate opinions and the assertions of Plato’s protagonists. If Plato’s mimetic irony is, in a sense, a manipulation of the reader, its goal is the very opposite of authoritarian control. Plato aims to engender the very freedom which is the goal of the Socratic maieutics he portrays: that freedom from one’s own unexamined opinion which permits one, precisely by means of submitting opinion to reflective examination, to reach beyond to an intuition of the otherwise hidden truth.
Thus they are immediately confronted with just those issues which Socrates has posed for the stranger in the trilogy: Who is the sophist? Who is the statesman? and Who is the philosopher? If we take these elements of contrast and convergence together, the trilogy begins to emerge as a distinctively philosophical version of Socrates’ trial. The very questions that were decided on the basis of opinion by the jurors are now taken up in philosophical reflection. It is not only a matter of overturning the Athenians’ verdict; more basically, the level and quality of thought are apparently deepened.
On the other hand, considered in and for itself, apart from its function in the curriculum, geometry stands as a specific opposite to dialectic in two important ways. First, it is axiomatic, proceeding directly to conclusions on the basis of assumptions that the geometer regards as “obvious to everybody” (510c–d). The dialectician, by contrast, begins by moving in the opposite direction, proceeding not from assumption to conclusion but rather from assumption to the higher principles which it presupposes and which, thus, are its founding preconditions.