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

Platos Dialectical Cut in Socrates Soul in The organism of the Beautiful Within the spectrum of the governmental realm, one of the mostimportant philosophic questions arises, What is the best regime? It isobvious that the best regime is one of complied consent. on that point still seemsto be difficulty in deciding the best actor to the desired end. Politics,the ruling force, operates in the realm of opinions. Its counterpart, philosophy, is an attempt to replace opinions roughly political things. Thispolitical science is the process of acquiring political noesis for theguiding of political life. The transformation from opinions to knowledgeis through the dialectic method. This political science is not withoutits problems. It is plagued by relativism and nihilism. These problemstend to arrange politics closed to philosophy. What philosophy is isbest seen in a confrontation amongst the philosopher and the city. It is byno small coincidence that these two conf licting views are seen in differentcharacters in The Being of the Beautiful. The obvious question now becomes wherefore does Plato make a dialectical cut in Socrates soul between Theaetetusand Young Socrates? In answering this question it becomes central toassume that the macrocosm of the beautiful is not contained in one character,and for that matter, may not be a character at all. It is crucial then totake 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 youth unsloped 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... that this is badly to takein (Statesman, 293e). The Stranger explains that the rule of law is forone categorize and is corrupt, imperfect and seditionary. Through thequestioning of the laws, t he foundations of the one are seen. Politics andphilosophy are not natural enemies. Both Theaetetus and Young Socratesunderstand the ideas to rough extent. The goal now is to make each receptiveto the other. Both make distinctions between men and gods. They can eachunderstand the concept that something still is. Within each characterseparately a vice is seen but when combined dialectically, the possibilityof a true political philosophy is possible. perchance Socrates sees in bothof them the idea of the philosopher and he wants to see it generated as verification of a permanent condition of human nature.