Defense of the Philosophy of Socrates and the Eleusinian ...
G. Myers, Ian
Only in his Statesman does Plato present a philosopher of the caliber of the Eleatic Stranger giving a non-Socratic teaching on politics and political philosophy with the mature Socrates in the audience. By doing so, he implies that the decisive comparison-the precondition for understanding Socratic political philosophy in its uniqueness-is between his Socrates and Eleatic Stranger. But the Stranger and Socrates also, as I aim to show here, sh...