SOCRATES AND LEGAL OBLIGAION
R.E.ALLEN, R. E. Allen, Reginald E. Allen, Πλάτων, Allen, R.E.3 (p1-1): Irony and Rhetoric in Plato's Apology
17 (p1-2): The Historical Background of the Charges
22 (p1-3): The Issue of Legality
33 (p1-4): The Issue of Historicity
37 (p1-5): The Apology
65 (p2): THE CRITO
65 (p2-1): Analysis
97 (p2-2): Assumpsit
100 (p2-3): Legal Obligation in the Crito
115 (p2-4): The Crito
131 (p3): NOTES
141 (p4): SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
145 (p5): INDICES
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.