Socrates and Legal Obligation.
Title:
Socrates and Legal Obligation.
Author:
Allen, R.E.
ISBN:
9780816661138
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (163 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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