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Antigone Versus Socrates in the Crito

Date Submitted: 10/14/2002 07:14:54
Category: / History
Length: 6 pages (1743 words)
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… well as following the opinion of the expert or government, if there is one. Socrates will not, therefore, obey Crito unless Crito produces a principle superior to his. If Crito does not have a superior principle, as Creon does not deliver a superior argument than Antigone, Crito has no claim to be obeyed: on moral questions, only the best logos and the moral expert deserve his obedience. Thus Socrates delivers the better logical argument.

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