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Analogy
Anytus
Apology (Plato)
Athenian Democracy
Attempt
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Authoritarianism
Callicles
Categorical imperative
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Charmides (dialogue)
Civil disobedience
Classical Athens
Critias
Critias (dialogue)
Criticism
Crito
Damascius
Demosthenes
Doctrine
Dokimasia
Epinomis
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Ethics
Euripides
Euthydemus (dialogue)
Euthyphro
Euthyphro (prophet)
Explanation
Good and evil
Gorgias
Greek mythology
Hippias Minor
In Defense of Anarchism
Isocrates
Kantianism
Meletus
Meno
Moral development
Morality
Nicias
Obedience (human behavior)
Objection (law)
Parmenides
Philosopher
Philosophy
Piety
Political philosophy
Politics
Prosecutor
Protagoras
Protagoras (dialogue)
Pythagoreanism
Reason
Republic (Plato)
Socrates
Socratic method
Solipsism
Sophist
Sophist (dialogue)
Spinozism
Statute
Suggestion
The Death of Socrates
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Theory
Theory of Forms
Thought
Trial of Socrates
Truism
Two Treatises of Government
Utilitarianism
Virtue
Product details
- ISBN 9780691022413
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 1987
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 escape from 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.
Richard Kraut, Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, is author of Aristotle on the Human Good (Princeton).
