The Second Sailing of the Eleatic Stranger
Between the Search of the Traces of the Absent Statesman and the Legitimization of Socrates’ Death Sentence
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Plato, Stateman, Second sailing, Ancentral Constitution, Moderate DemocracyAbstract
In this work I propose that the “second navigation” that the Eleatic Stranger presents in Plato’s dialogue Statesman must be read in light of the transformations that occurred in the functioning of Athenian democracy between the end of the 5th century and the beginning of the 4th century BC., guided by the notion of pátrios politeía. I maintain that if this interpretative perspective is taken into account, it is evident that the Stranger grants to the moderate democratic regime that ruled in Athens throughout the 4th century BC. C. the role of having created the political principle that he will call “second navigation”, and that he will later extend to the rest of the regimes that he will consider imitations of true politeía. Likewise, the proposed reading will allow me to establish that the Eleatic Stranger justifies the trial and death sentence of Socrates carried out by that same democracy.
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