Socrates and the Laws of Athens

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ID4079385
AutoresThomas C Brickhouse (University of Lynchburg), Nicholas D Smith (0000-0001-7410-6914, Lewis & Clark College)
Ano2006
Volume1
Fascículo6
Páginas564-570
Data de publicação2006-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00046.x
OpenAlexW2134768045
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas14

The claim that the citizen's duty is to "persuade or obey" the laws, expressed by the personified Laws of Athens in Plato's Crito, continues to receive intense scholarly attention. In this article, we provide a general review of the debates over this doctrine, and how the various positions taken may or may not fit with the rest of what we know about Socratic philosophy. We ultimately argue that the problems scholars have found in attributing the doctrine to Socrates derive from an anachronistic and erroneous understanding of Socrates as a kind of libertarian

Anachronism · Doctrine · Duty · Epistemology · Political science · SOCRATES · Socratic method · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy