Lane, Melissa <br/><br/>
“Callings of Philosophers”: Political Art and the Stranger in Politics in the Light of Socrates and the Philosopher in Théétète 

 -  2005.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> This paper examines the relations between two late Platonic dialogues by focusing on the notion of due measure. In the Statesman, this notion occurs in the context of a distinction between two types of metretics, although the Stranger defers its detailed discussion to another occasion. The thesis here argued is that this other occasion is the Philebus, the complex argument of which can be read as a clarification of the notion of measure. This parallel makes it possible to shed light on two important aspects of the Statesman : on the one hand, the role played in that dialogue by the Idea of the Good, and on the other hand, the relation between due measure and participation.