Plato Crito
Channel: Monte Johnson
Date: 2020-04-04

Discussion of Plato's early socratic dialogue, the Crito. The students read the translation of B. Jowett (New York and London, 1892). The dialogue is about civil obedience, and it shows Socrates using three different kinds of ethical arguments: deontological, social contract based, and consequentialist. But Plato does not value the three kinds of ethical argumentation equally. His personification of the Law envisions a kind of living "body politic" which to some extent susceptible to reason but commands obedience in any case.