Learning from Models: 277c7–283a9

In Panos Dimas, Melissa Lane & Susan Sauve Meyer (eds.), Plato’s Statesman: a Philosophical Discussion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 94–114 (2021)
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This chapter examines Plato’s account of the method of learning by paradeigma (‘model’) in the Statesman. I first explain what the method is. I then consider the two parties who are described as using it: children who are learning to read and write and the dialogue’s two interlocutors. I highlight some parallels between each party’s use of the method. These parallels illuminate important features of dialectical inquiry in general and the Visitor and Young Socrates’ inquiry in particular, including the nature of the knowledge they ultimately hope to achieve and one stage in the complex process by which they aim achieve it.

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David Bronstein
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