Socrates and legal obligation / R.E. Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Reginald E., 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obedience (Law).

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Plato. Apology.

Plato.

Plato. Crito.

Socrates.

Physical Description:

ix, 148 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Socrates and Legal Obligation was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Charged with "impiety" and sentenced to death under the law of Athens, Socrates did not try to disprove the charges or to escape death, but rather held to a different kind of rhetoric, aiming not at persuasion but at truth. In Socrates and Legal Obligation, R.E. Allen contends that Plato's works on Socrates' acceptance of death-the Apology and the Crito - should be considered together and as such constitute a profound treatment of law and of obligation to law. Allen's study of Socrates' thought on these vital issues is accompanied by his own translations of the Apology and the Crito.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE APOLOGY

Irony and Rhetoric in Plato's Apology

The Historical Background of the Charges

The Issue of Legality

The Issue of Historicity

The Apology

THE CRITO

Analysis

Assumpsit

Legal Obligation in the Crito

The Crito

NOTES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDICES

Index of Passages Cited

Index of Names

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

K

L

M

N

P

R

S

T

X.

Notes:

Includes the author's translations of Plato's Apology and Crito.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-142) and index.

Contains:

Plato. Apology. English

Plato. Crito. English

OCLC:

437212117