Final document. The concept of written laws and their place in government is one of the key points of discussion in the Statesman's Platonic Dialogue. In this philosophical work a dialogue is discussed on the nature of statesmanship to determine what distinguishes the true statesman from all those who can claim this title. This dialogue uses several dialectical methods as Plato begins to move away from the Socratic method of argumentation. In this dialogue Socrates is replaced as the leader of the discussion by the stranger who engages the young Socrates in a discussion about the statesman. Among the different argumentative methods used by Plato in this dialogue, division and myth play a central role in the development of the arguments put forward by the stranger as he leads the young Socrates along the dialectical path towards the nature of the statesman. The statesman is compared to a shepherd or guardian of the human “flock.” The conclusion that derives from the division says that the statesman is he who: gives commands (with a science) of his own intellect on the human race. This is the first conclusion reached by the dialogue through the method of division. The dialogue, however, does not end here as the stranger suggests that their definition still lacks clarity because there are still some (doctors, farmers, traders, etc…) who claim the title of shepherds of humanity. For this reason a new approach to the topic must be undertaken: “then we must begin from a new starting point and travel on a different road” (Statesman 268 D.). This new approach that is taken in their search for a definition of the statesman causes the stranger to use the myth to show the young Socrates what the shepherd of the human flock does. It is in the development of this myth that it is shown why the statesman can be separated from many of those who claim his title. The myth Plato uses in this dialogue revolves around the idea of ​​the world as a living creature. In the myth introduced, the existence of the world is divided into two eras, the Age of Cronus and the Age of Zeus. According to the myth, the world is endowed with movement, but by itself it cannot move eternally.