@article{78a40d6f40fb45778610114b89f2cbf9,
title = "Plato's Eleatic and Athenian sciences of politics",
abstract = "Plato's Statesman and Laws are usually linked together as Plato's later political theory. Yet these dialogues offer contradictory descriptions of the relation between law and reason and thus between political science and philosophy. In particular, the Eleatic Stranger of the Statesman presents an account of the second-best regime that differs from that of the Athenian Stranger in the Laws. The Eleatic Stranger's account of the second-best is wrong; his error follows from his view that politics is insignificant for genuinely human purposes. By comparing human statesmanship to animal herding and explicating its nature through the paradigm of weaving, the Eleatic Stranger contends that the true philosopher is too concerned with individual human natures to care for human collectivities. From his perspective, Socratic or Athenian political philosophy is but sophistry.",
author = "Kochin, \{Michael S.\}",
note = "Funding Information: 74. An earlier version of this article was presented at a panel on {"}Citizens and Statesmen: Ancient and Modern{"} at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, where the discussant, Romand Coles, and members of the audience gave useful comments. Clifford Orwin helped and encouraged me in revising, and the anonymous referees contributed numerous valuable suggestions. Aline Linden read Dixsaut's and Narcy's articles with me. During the period of this research I received financial support from a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a Metcalf Fellowship from Victoria College of the University of Toronto.",
year = "1999",
doi = "10.1017/S0034670500028138",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "61",
pages = "57--84",
journal = "Review of Politics",
issn = "0034-6705",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "1",
}