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The hosts highlighted the title as an exploration of leadership, using a shepherd metaphor to stress unity, justice, and knowledge in governance, and noted its place in an unfinished Platonic trilogy alongside the Sophist and Philosopher.
Episode: Statesman by Plato ~ Full Audiobook
The book 'Statesman' by Plato is an exploration of leadership and the qualities of a true statesman. It uses the metaphor of a shepherd who nurtures and guides his flock, highlighting the importance of unity, justice, and knowledge in governance.
Statesman, by Plato. Translated by Benjamin Joett.
Sophist. Statesman. Philosopher.
Sophist. Statesman. Philosopher.
O, my dear Theodorus, do my ears truly witness that this is the estimate formed of them by the great Calculator and Geometrician?
Statesmanship and the statesman, the kingly science and the king.
Episode: Critias by Plato ~ Full Audiobook
The book was mentioned as part of a trilogy that was never completed, alongside The Sophist and Philosopher.
The Critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was designed to be the second part of a trilogy, which, like the other Greek Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, statesman philosopher was never completed.