Socrates and Legal Obligation

by R.E. Allen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816656929
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	01/02/1981
Series:	Minnesota Archive Editions
Edition description:	Minnesota Archive Editions
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

R. E. Allen was a professor of philosophy and classics at Northwestern University. He is the editor of Studies in Plato’s Metaphysics and author of Plato’s Euthyphro and the Earlier Theory of Ideas.