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Socrates's Great Escape: Philosophy And Politics In The Crito, Matthew King
Socrates's Great Escape: Philosophy And Politics In The Crito, Matthew King
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Many contemporary students of Plato hold that the arguments Socrates gives the personified Laws in the Crito do not represent Socrates’s own views, but rather work on assumptions to which Crito adheres, but Socrates does not. But if the Laws’ arguments are not Socrates’s own, then we seem to be left with a bewildering problem: why would Plato provide us with arguments that Socrates does not believe in, for a conclusion which Socrates evidently does believe in? After all, Socrates does remain in prison to face his execution; evidently, he believes that that is what he ought to do. This …