Responding to Crito: Socrates and political obligation

• Autores: R. Bentley
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 17, Nº 1, 1996, págs. 1-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.