Socrates and the State

by Richard Kraut

Book 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 a philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a highly balanced compromise between the state and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691022410
• ISBN13: 9780691022413
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"