A01=Michael C. Stokes
Author_Michael C. Stokes
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Classical Philosophy
Classical Studies
Classics
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Philosophy
Product details
- ISBN 9780954384593
- Weight: 564g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2005
- Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes' book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Crito's positions. Stokes's approach avoids the 'documentary fallacy'; it shows how Plato catered for both the novice and the experienced reader of his published works. This books offers a fresh account of Socrates' whole strategy. It demonstrates both the shakiness of Socrates' persuasion of the un-philosophical Crito to engage in dialectic, and the coherence of his substantive confutation. Plato's reasoning emerges from Stokes' study with more credit than many have given it.
