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Socrates Dissatisfied - An Analysis of Plato's Crito (Paperback)
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Socrates Dissatisfied - An Analysis of Plato's Crito (Paperback)
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For whom do the personified Laws in the latter part of the Crito
speak? Who is it in the dialogue who demands of the citizen utter
submission to whatever the city bids whether right or wrong, just
or unjust? If it is Socrates for whom the Laws speak and if it is
he who sets the city's commands above the considered moral
judgement of the individual, what, one must wonder, has become of
the radically independent Socrates of the Apologywho defiantly
resists calls to injustice regardless of their source? In Socrates
Dissatisfied, Weiss argues against the prevailing view that the
Laws are Socrates' spokesmen. She reveals and explores many
indications that Socrates and the Laws are, both in style and in
substance, adversaries: whereas the Laws are rhetoricians who
defend their own absolute authority, Socrates is a dialectician who
defends-in the Crito no less than in the Apology-the overriding
claim of each individual's own reason when assiduously applied to
questions of justice. It is only for the sake of an unphilosophical
Crito, Weiss suggests, that Socrates invents the speech of the
Laws; he resorts to rhetoric in a desperate attempt to save Crito's
soul even as Crito seeks to save his body. Indeed, as Weiss shows,
Socrates' own philosophical reasons for remaining in prison rather
than escaping as Crito wishes are clearly and fully articulated
before the speech of the Laws begins. Deft, provocative, and
compelling, with new translations providing groundbreaking
interpretations of key passages, Socrates Dissatisfied challenges
the standard conception of the history of political thought: if its
argument is correct, political philosophy begins not with the
assertion of the supremacy of the state over the citizen, but with
the affirmation of the primacy of the citizen in his deliberative
exercise of reason with respect to justice. Socrates Dissatisfiedis
vital reading for students and scholars of ancient philosophy,
classics, and political philosophy.
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