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#political-obligation
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In the Crito, do the Laws answer Crito’s arguments, or just outtalk him?
My nephew is reading the Crito for school, and he asked me a question I could not answer cleanly. Crito gives Socrates practical reasons to escape: what people will say about his friends, his duty to his children, the charge that staying…
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I never agreed to obey the state. Why do I owe it anything?
This week's lecture was on the social contract, and since then one thought keeps coming back while I sit in traffic. I never signed anything. I was born here, like my parents. Nobody asked me if I agreed to the laws, the…
Started by Serkan Aydoğdu4 replies