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Socrates and the State - Kraut, Richard
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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 ...

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Socrates and the State 1987, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691022413

Trade paperback

Socrates and the State 1984, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691076669

Hardcover