Socrates and the State

by: Kraut, R.

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 This fresh outlook on Socrates' political philosophy in Plato's early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed. Focusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates' refusal to escapefrom jail and his acceptance of the death penalty as arising not from a philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a highly balanced compromise between the state and the citizen. In addition, Professor Kraut contends that our contemporary notions of civil disobedience and generalization arguments are not present in this dialogue. Kraut examines the attitudes of Socrates toward the state with regard to obeying the laws of the polity and discusses the questions of virtue

Subjects:
Crito (Plato)
FernUniversität in Hagen Arbeitsgruppe Polis
Polis
Political and social views
Political science Philosophy
Politics Theories of Socrates
Politieke filosofie
Politische Philosophie
Socrate Science politique
Socrates
Socrates Political and social views
Socrates Political science
Staatslehre

ix, 338 pages ; 23 cm

Socrates and the State

by: Kraut, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780691076669 / 978-0-691-07666-9
• ISBN-03: 0691076669 / 0-691-07666-9
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1984

Price: 69,00 EURO

1 copy in stock