Benardete, Seth, "The Plan of Plato’s Statesman," The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 354-75.

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One one realizes that the unemployed king could be the wise man in charge of himself, it is possible to reinterpret the Stranger’s fourth piece of evidence that politics is a gnostic science. He says that the king’s hands and body contribute little to the maintenance of his rule in comparison with his strength of soul and intelligence. On the surface, the Stranger is simply contradicting himself, for the knowledgeable king, who can but does not have to advise the actual king, has no rule to maintain.

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