Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman (Paperback, Reissue)

Part I. Method: 1. Becoming better dialecticians; 2. Collection in the Phaedras and the Sophist; 3. Division in the Phaedras and the Sophist; 4. Collection yields to illustrative paradigms; 5. The Weaver Paradigm; 6. The Final Definition; Part II. Metaphysics: 7. Excess and deficiency in general; 8. The great and the small in Plato's dialogues; 9. The generation of everything good and fair; 10. Accuracy in the art of dialectic; 11. Division according to forms; 12. The metaphysics of division.