Platos Crito is a thought-provoking dialogue that explores the themes of justice, morality, and the duty of citizens to the state. Set in the aftermath of Socrates trial and impending execution, the ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC as he waited to be executed by drinking hemlock. Both works show Socrates ...

Of all writers of speculative philosophy, both ancient and modern, there is probably no one who has attained so eminent a position as Plato. What Homer was to Epic poetry, what Cicero and Demosthenes ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Political Theory (PT), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, serves as the leading forum for the development and exchange of ...