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Plato’s Crito
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Reading a Platonic Dialogue
Dramatic Structure: place, time, characters, plot.
Substantive Issues: the facts of the discipline.
Methodological Issues: strategies for discovering and evaluating the facts of a discipline.
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Dramatic Structure
Place: Socrates’s prison cell. Time: The day before Socrates’s execution. Characters: Socrates and Crito
(an old friend) Plot: Crito attempts to persuade Socrates to
escape from prison.
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From the text…
Why does Crito think that Socrates should avoid execution by escaping
from prison?
Ancient prison cells in Athens. The Death of Socrates (Jacques-Louis David,
1787; oil on canvas, 51 x 77 1/4 in.; New York Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Substantive Issues
• The good is valued above all else (48b, 54b) • It is better to be harmed than to harm (49b-d)
• Just promises must be kept (49e)
• The State is like a parent (50c-51b)
• “Persuade or obey” (51b-c)
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Methodological Issues
• If an argument is ever sound, it is always sound; truth is stable (46b-c, 49b)
• In seeking truth, listen to the experts, not the mob (44c-d, 47a-48b)
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King’s “Letter”
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (April 1963)
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An action is civilly disobedient =df.
(1) Deliberate (2) Public (3) Non-violent (4) Non-revolutionary (5) Used as a last resort
The action is …
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Martin Luther King on …
(1) Just and Unjust Laws (2) The Myth of Time (3) Negative and Positive Peace