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Socrates and the State
Overview
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 philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a highly balanced compromise between the state and the citizen.
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- ISBN-13: 9780691022413
- ISBN-10: 0691022410
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publish Date: July 1987
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 350
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