政治家篇(影印本)/剑桥政治思想史原著系列

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这套系列丛书每一本都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概，、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。本丛书的最终目的，为西文政治思想的整个发展脉络提供一个清晰的轮廓。

政治家	实践历史	六十年来中国与日本（全八卷）	大上海的孤岛岁月	国闻备乘
亚洲问题及其对国际政治的影响	潘恩政治著作选	历史与战略：中西军事史新论	旧中国空军秘档	飞翔在中国上空：1910-1950年中国航空..

Pfeface
Introduction
Translator's note
Chronology of principal events
Bibliography
Biographical note
Statesman
Index
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This seems to be a simple and welcome point.Plato is saying that political theory should not come up with solutions which are so idealized that they have no hope of applving in the world as it is.And this is certainly what Plato's position iS in the Laws f874e- 875d) when he says that the ideal expeft ruler is an unattainable ideal.since it is not in human nature to attain to experr knowledge or to remain uncorrupted bv the potential for its use on other humans.When this is Plato's firm conclusion.he ceases to devote attention to tlle expert ruler as a solution to political problems.
But in the Statesman it is harder to see exacfly what Plato'S position iS.For despite his clear application of the myth of the Golden Age，PlatO continues to develop the idea that the experr ruler iS t11e best answer to political problems.the best Way to produce a state run in the interests of a11.0ther types of solution are，by the end of the dialogue，firmly relegated tO second.best. Further.his treatment of the Golden Age myth is itself somewhat elusive.He treats the details of the traditional material in ways tllat are strikingly surreal，raising unavoidablv the question of how seriously he iS talking the idea even as a myth.And this in turn clouds the idea of just what the circumstances are which are being excluded as too ideal for relevance to actual societies.