"2. We hit Soc's explanation that the city laws are like parents and therefore we have to obey them unquestioningly no matter how wrong they might be, just like we do our parents."
It's been a very long time since I read Socrates's argument, and I even forget the title of the essay containing it. That said, and while the argument as you summarized it makes no sense to me at all, a veriant of it makes at least some sense in a democratic society, which Athens was for some of the people living there. Note that I said "some sense."
Socrates is often pointed to as one of the greats in human history. I found a very different view in I. F. Stone's The Trial of Socrates, which I recommend highly.
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Date: 2011-02-24 08:00 pm (UTC)It's been a very long time since I read Socrates's argument, and I even forget the title of the essay containing it. That said, and while the argument as you summarized it makes no sense to me at all, a veriant of it makes at least some sense in a democratic society, which Athens was for some of the people living there. Note that I said "some sense."
Socrates is often pointed to as one of the greats in human history. I found a very different view in I. F. Stone's The Trial of Socrates, which I recommend highly.