Democracy under Fire: A New Interpretation of Plato's Crito
Series: Philosophia Antiqua; 178;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 14 May 2026
- ISBN 9789004751309
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This book offers a bold new interpretation of Plato’s dialogue Crito. Based on a view of the dialogue as philosophical drama and on meticulous philological analysis, Crito emerges as one of the most profound critiques of democracy.
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This book argues that Plato’s Crito is a fundamental critique of democracy, presenting Crito as the representative democratic citizen. Initially appearing good, decent and law-abiding, but ultimately revealed as bad, indecent and a lawbreaker, harmful to the polis. Through the dialogue’s three-stage structure—revelation, rectification, and refutation—Socrates exposes in Crito a fatal democratic flaw. This the author calls the “Measure for Measure argument”: the social legitimation of lawbreaking in pursuit of private interest, conceived as unconsciously repaying injustice with injustice. Democratic citizens are generally law-abiding, yet violate the law whenever private interests are at stake, justifying this by subconsciously claiming “the State did me an injustice”. Plato’s solution to securing obedience lies not in the Laws’ speech, but in internalizing that breaking the law harms one’s own soul.
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