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Roslyn Weiss contends that, contrary to prevailing notions, Plato's Crito does not show an allegiance between Socrates and the state that condemned him. Denying that the speech of the Laws represents the views of Socrates, Weiss deftly brings to light numerous indications that Socrates provides to the attentive reader that he and the Laws are not partners but antagonists in the argument and that he is singularly unimpressed by the case against escaping prison presented by the Laws. Weiss's greatest innovation is her contention that the Laws are very much like the judges who preside at Socrates' trial-interested not in justice and truth but in being shown deference and submission. If Weiss's argument is correct, then the standard conception of the history of political thought is in error-political philosophy begins not with the primacy of the state over the citizen but with the affirmation of the individual's duty to act in accordance with his own careful determination of what justice demands.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Socrates Dissatisfied
• Subtitle: An Analysis of Plato's Crito
• Author: Roslyn Weiss
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9780195116847
• ISBN: 0195116844
• ID: 04514317
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 476 g
• Dimensions: 243 × 164 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. March 1998

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