Socrates and Legal Obligation

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Author:

R.E. Allen

“An excellent piece of work, one which . . . should go far to illuminate the more general questions of legal obligation as well as the specific question raised over and over again in recent years by commentators on the Apology and the Crito.” -- Harold Cherniss, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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R. E. Allen was a professor of philosophy and classics at Northwestern University. He is the editor of Studies in Plato’s Metaphysics and author of Plato’s Euthyphro and the Earlier Theory of Ideas.

“An excellent piece of work, one which . . . should go far to illuminate the more general questions of legal obligation as well as the specific question raised over and over again in recent years by commentators on the Apology and the Crito.” -- Harold Cherniss, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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