Responding to Crito: Socrates and political obligation
Responding to Crito: Socrates and political obligation
In the most comprehensive treatment of Plato 's Crito to date, Richard Kraut says: 'If possible, the Crito ought to be interpreted in a way that makes it consistent with the Apology and the other early Platonic dialogues.' My aim in the following paper is sympathetic to this view. However, the consistency I find is wider in scope than the reconciliation of Socrates' commitment to disobedience in one dialogue and his apparent rejection of disobedience in the other. I seek a reconciliation between the Socratic charge to live an examined life and the demands of a life under law.
plato, crito, richard kraut, apology, platonic dialogues, disobedience
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Bentley, Russell
bd4dc158-ec56-4fa0-a8ca-615642243fbb
1996
Bentley, Russell
bd4dc158-ec56-4fa0-a8ca-615642243fbb
Bentley, Russell
(1996)
Responding to Crito: Socrates and political obligation.
History of Political Thought, 17 (1), .
Abstract
In the most comprehensive treatment of Plato 's Crito to date, Richard Kraut says: 'If possible, the Crito ought to be interpreted in a way that makes it consistent with the Apology and the other early Platonic dialogues.' My aim in the following paper is sympathetic to this view. However, the consistency I find is wider in scope than the reconciliation of Socrates' commitment to disobedience in one dialogue and his apparent rejection of disobedience in the other. I seek a reconciliation between the Socratic charge to live an examined life and the demands of a life under law.
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Published date: 1996
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plato, crito, richard kraut, apology, platonic dialogues, disobedience
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