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Statesman

by Plato

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“What the Statesman is doing is asking, Is there such a thing as political expertise or political knowledge? What is it exactly that a true statesman would have to know?” Read more...

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Statesman

by Plato

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Plato

Theaetetus by Plato

Apology by Plato

The Symposium by Plato

Republic by Plato

Gorgias by Plato

Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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Theaetetus
by Plato

Apology
by Plato

The Symposium
by Plato

Republic
by Plato

Gorgias
by Plato

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë