The work of Plato, Politikos, dramatically undervalued until almost today, is finally beginning to take the place it deserves within the framework of the advancement of political thought of the Athenian philosopher.

Let us be careful: It is this Platonic philosophical subject of the Politikos and the Laws, the Stranger as Eleatic and as Athenian, respectively, which simultaneously poses as a problem of political philosophy and philosophical anthropology the relationship of reason, unity, identity, and being, with art, multiplicity, pleasure, and difference.

Indeed, it is this Platonic philosophical subject as Stranger, initially Eleatic (: Politikos) and subsequently Athenian (: Laws), which prioritizes the response of philosophy to desire, multiplicity, difference, becoming, imagination, and art, over the imperative of reason, unity, identity, and being.