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This fresh outlook on Socrates' political philosophy in Plato's early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed. Focusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates' refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death penalty as arising not from a philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a highly balanced compromise between the state and the citizen. In addition, Professor Kraut contends that our contemporary notions of civil disobedience and generalization arguments are not present in this dialogue.

Socrates --- Political and social views. --- Analogy. --- Anytus. --- Apology (Plato). --- Argument from analogy. --- Argument from authority. --- Aristotle. --- Athenian Democracy. --- Attempt. --- Authoritarianism. --- Begging the question. --- Callicles. --- Categorical imperative. --- Charmides (dialogue). --- Civil disobedience. --- Clarke's three laws. --- Classical Athens. --- Consideration. --- Critias (dialogue). --- Critias. --- Criticism. --- Crito. --- Damascius. --- Deliberation. --- Democratic liberalism. --- Demosthenes. --- Doctrine of necessity. --- Doctrine. --- Dokimasia. --- Dynamism (metaphysics). --- Egocentrism. --- Epinomis. --- Ethics. --- Eudaimonia. --- Eudemian Ethics. --- Euripides. --- Euthydemus (dialogue). --- Euthyphro (prophet). --- Euthyphro. --- Explanation. --- Good and evil. --- Gorgias. --- Greek mythology. --- Hedonism. --- Hippias (tyrant). --- Hippias Minor. --- Hippias. --- In Defense of Anarchism. --- Isocrates. --- Jury. --- Kantianism. --- Liberalism. --- Meletus. --- Meno. --- Moral development. --- Morality. --- Necessity. --- Nicias. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Objection (law). --- Parmenides. --- Philo of Byblos. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical Studies. --- Philosophy of law. --- Philosophy. --- Piety. --- Plea. --- Plotinus. --- Political philosophy. --- Politics. --- Popular sovereignty. --- Prosecutor. --- Protagoras (dialogue). --- Protagoras. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Ratification. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Republic (Plato). --- Socrates. --- Socratic method. --- Socratic questioning. --- Solipsism. --- Sophist (dialogue). --- Sophist. --- Spinozism. --- Statute. --- Suggestion. --- The Death of Socrates. --- The Open Society and Its Enemies. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Thrasymachus. --- Trial of Socrates. --- Truism. --- Two Treatises of Government. --- Utilitarianism. --- Virtue. --- Working hypothesis.