Beginning with a reading of Plato’s <i>Statesman</i>, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato’s thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers—or<i> invents</i>—a form of <i>true</i> or <i>real life</i> that transcends all merely biological<i> </i>life and everything that is commonly called life.
