Benardete, Seth, The Being of the Beautiful: Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, xi-xlix.

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A bibliography of Platonic studies for the years 1958-75 lists 3,326 items; of these 102 are indexed as dealing with the Theaetetus, 188 with the Sophist, and 21 with the Statesman. Since the difficulties of the Statesman, as to its plan and intention, are not less than either of the other two dialogues, the disparity in the number of items can only have resulted from the assumption that epistemology and metaphysics, with which the Theaetetus and the Sophist in some sense deal, can be cleanly separated from political philosophy. It is the purpose of this book to show that such a separation, however plausible it may appear to be, is wholly mistaken for Plato in general and for these dialogues in particular.

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