Platos Dialectical Cut in Socrates Soul in The Being of the Beautiful

Platos Dialectical Cut in Socrates Soul in The Being of the Beautiful Within the spectrum of the policy-making realm, sensation of the most distinguished philosophical questions arises, What is the best(p) regime? It isobvious that the best regime is 1 of complied consent. There still seemsto be difficulty in deciding the best means to the desired end. politics,the ruling force, operates in the realm of opinions. Its counterpart, philosophical system, is an attempt to stand in opinions about political things. Thispolitical science is the process of acquiring political k directledge for theguiding of political life. The transformation from opinions to knowledgeis through the dialectic method. This political science is non withoutits problems. It is plagued by relativism and nihilism. These problemstend to make authorities unreceptive to philosophy. What philosophy is isbest seen in a confrontation among the philosopher and the city. It is byno small coincide nce that these two conflicting views be seen in differentcharacters in The Being of the Beautiful. The obvious question now becomesWhy does Plato make a dialectical cut in Socrates psyche between Theaetetusand Young Socrates? In answering this question it becomes central to pay that the being of the beautiful is not contained in one character,and for that matter, may not be a character at all. It is crucial then to show up the characteristics of both Theaetetus and Young Socrates inrelation to what the beautiful is. In so doing, it will provide the basisfor political knowledge. To begin, Theaetetus is a young just returned frombattle. War, being the harshest of all teachers places one under the duressof necessity. This is a fo... ...nd this. Hesays that all has been said in a measured way... except this is hard to takein (Statesman, 293e). The Stranger explains that the rule of law is forone class and is corrupt, imperfect and seditionary. Through thequestioning of the laws, the foundations of the one are seen. Politics andphilosophy are not natural enemies. both Theaetetus and Young Socrates comprehend the ideas to some extent. The goal now is to make each receptiveto the other. Both make distinctions between men and gods. They can eachunderstand the thought that something merely is. Within each characterseparately a sin is seen but when combined dialectically, the possibilityof a true political philosophy is possible. Perhaps Socrates sees in bothof them the idea of the philosopher and he wants to see it generated asproof of a permanent condition of human nature.