Defining the Statesman by Thinking of the Dialectician? Notes on the Capabilities of Paradeigmata in Plato's Statesman

In the framework of the discussion about the potential identification of the statesman with the philosopher in the post-Re-public Platonic dialogues, this paper focuses on the approach proposed in Statesman. Specifically, it focuses on the use of a methodological resource, par & aacute;deigma, to which the interlocutors appeal to define the statesman. In this sense, we contribute to the discussion by identifying a series of contact points that unite the characterization of the statesman with that of the philosopher-dialectician that emerges in Plato's late works.