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Two notes on the Crito: the impotence of the many, and 'persuade or obey'

Classical Quarterly 47 (01):133-146 (1997)

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Why Socrates’ Legs Didn’t Run Off to Megara.Ellisif Wasmuth - 2020 - Phronesis 65 (4):380-413.details I argue that the arguments presented in Socrates’ dialogue with the personified Laws of the Crito are arguments Socrates endorses and relies upon when deciding to remain in prison. They do not, however, entail blind obedience to every court verdict, nor do they provide necessary and sufficient conditions for resolving every dilemma of civil disobedience. Indeed, lacking definitional knowledge of justice, we should not expect Socrates to be able to offer such conditions. Instead, the Laws present an argument that is (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Defiance, Persuasion or Conformity? The Argument in Plato’s Apology and Crito.Mikołaj Domaradzki - 2011 - Peitho 2 (1):111-122.details The present paper attempts to throw some light on the conundrum of Socrates’ political views in the Apology and Crito. The problem resides in that the Socrates of the Apology evidently undermines the authority of Athenian democracy, whereas the Socrates of the Crito argues that his escape from prison would be tantamount to disrespecting the state, which would in turn threaten the prosperity of the entire πόλις. The article suggests that in the two dialogues, the young Plato examines the possibility (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
El significado de la prosopopeya de las Leyes en el "Critón" de Platon.Eduardo Esteban Magoja - 2015 - Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 32 (1):11-39.details El objeto de este trabajo es realizar un estudio iusfilosófico sobre la aparición de las Leyes (nómoi) personificadas de Atenas en el Critón de Platón. La prosopopeya de las Leyes resulta ser un aspecto central para poder comprender la obra, ya que éstas entablan un diálogo imaginario con Sócrates en el cual instalan diversos argumentos filosóficos para fundamentar la autoridad de la pólis. A los fines de identificar el valor argumentativo de este recurso en la obra, analizaré el significado del (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Denn dies ist mir viel wert, Kriton...: Zu Text und Interpretation von Plat. Crit. 48e4.Markus Kersten - 2018 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 162 (2):232-246.details The paper concerns the textual form of the sentence Crit. 48e4. A return to the transmitted infinitive πεῖσαι is proposed; at the same time, it is demonstrated that the sentence is thereby ambiguous. Yet, it can be shown that this ambiguousness does not render the passage meaningless. In fact, the transmitted text is interpretively extremely rich, because with the indefinite infinitive a central problem of the dialogue, the demand ‘to convince or obey’, is accentuated in a distinctive way, namely in (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Why Not Escape? On the Hosiotes in Plato’s Crito.Joanna Komorowska - 2011 - Peitho 2 (1):169-182.details While the article discusses the factors that motivated Socrates’ decisionin the Crito, it emphasizes the possible cultural import of the choiceundertaken in the aftermath of the political upheavals in the late fifthcentury. It is also argued here that as Plato’s dialogue were written inthe period that followed the renewal of the Athenian politeia, it shouldbe perceived as having its roots both in the historical reality of its narrativefocus and in the then reality of Plato’s Athens. Download Export citation Bookmark

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