êutifron/Apologia De Sócrates/Criton by Plato
A trio of dialogues follows Socrates through an inquiry into the nature of piety—exposing the weaknesses of ready definitions and leaving the question unresolved—then through his public defense against charges of corrupting the youth and impiety, where he explains his mission of questioning, refuses to compromise his principles, and calmly accepts the court’s sentence, and finally into a prison conversation in which he turns down escape, arguing that one must not repay injustice with injustice and must respect the laws and obligations of the polis; together they examine virtue, the philosopher’s duty to truth, and the ethical tensions between individual conscience and civic authority.
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- Nationality
- Greek
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- Unknown
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- Original Language
- Ancient greek
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- Alternate Titles
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- Apologia Socratis
- Apology
- Apology of Socrates
- Crito
- Criton
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