Plato's Crito As A Defense of Critical Inquiry

Alone in the World: The Existential Socrates in theApologyandCrito

“…1–33). In this sense my own reading is closest to the ‘dramatic’ approach, though it comes to conclusions that are quite different from Congleton's as well as others who favor this approach, such as DeLue (1977) and Young (1974). For an Arendtian, political reading alternative to both the philosophical and dramatic approaches, see Euben (1978).…”

“…These discrepancies between what the Laws say and Socrates' own understandings are ignored by many scholars who, for very different reasons and purposes, take for granted that the Laws' speech expresses Socrates' own beliefs. See for example Allen (1972) and Farrell (1978), who stress the philosophical qualities of the Laws' speech and how Socrates is persuaded by it, and DeLue (1977) who stresses instead, following Congleton, the dramatic elements of the dialogue.…”