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At the very outset of this discussion, we established that the stranger’s exposition in the Statesman is his response to two distinct requests by the elder Socrates. Socrates wants a definition of statesmanship and a test to disclose the inner kinship between himself and young Socrates. Both are tasks of mediation, the first in the context of Socrates’ trial by the Athenians, the second in the context of his personally friendly, substantively difficult relations with the circle of Theodorus.
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Miller, M.H. (1980). The Final Diairesis (287b–311c). In: The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman. Martinus Nijhoff Classical Philosophy Library, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8790-6_4
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