Socrates Dissatisfied An Analysis of Plato's Crito

by Weiss, Roslyn

• ISBN13: 9780742513228
• ISBN10: 074251322X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In Socrates Dissatisfied, Weiss argues against the prevailing view that the personified Laws in the latter part of the Crito are Socrates' spokesmen. She reveals and explores many indications that Socrates and the Laws are, both in style and in substance, adversaries. 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.

Author Biography

Roslyn Weiss is associate professor of philosophy at Lehigh University. She has published numerous articles on Plato and on Maimonides

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Dissatisfied Socrates	3	(4)
Remaining at the Station	7	(32)
Justice and Philosophy	7	(1)
Authority and Law	8	(7)
Gods and ``The God''	15	(9)
Athens	24	(3)
Proper Conduct in Court	27	(3)
The Penalties	30	(6)
Hades	36	(3)
Running the Risk for Friendship	39	(18)
Crito as Socrates' Friend	39	(4)
The Unphilosophical Crito	43	(6)
Crito's Conception of the Just, the Brave, and the Shameful	49	(2)
Crito's Questionable Morality	51	(3)
Crito's Manner of Addressing Socrates	54	(3)
The Philosophical Argument against Escape	57	(27)
Socrates' Procedure for Solving Moral Questions	58	(5)
Socrates' Moral Principles	63	(9)
Socrates' Argument against Escape	72	(9)
Socrates as Crito's Friend	81	(3)
``Especially an Orator''	84	(12)
Protecting Crito	85	(1)
The Laws as Rhetoricians	86	(2)
The Citizen's Agreement	88	(8)
``Whatever We Bid''	96	(38)
The City as Parent and Master	98	(14)
The Argument from Agreement	112	(12)
Escape Will Benefit No One	124	(10)
The Corybantic Cure	134	(12)
The Corybantic Metaphor	134	(6)
Why Crito Would ``Speak in Vain''	140	(3)
The Way the God Is Leading	143	(3)
A Fool Satisfied	146	(15)
Engaging Crito	150	(5)
Benefiting Crito	155	(3)
Protecting the Reader	158	(3)
Restoring the Radical Socrates	161	(10)
Bibliography	171	(4)
Index	175