Article ID: CBB001420212

Principles, Dialectic and the Common World of Friendship: Socrates and Crito in Conversation (2014)

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In the Crito, a dialogue that is highly influential for the traditions both of philosophy and of political thinking, Socrates resists the pleading of his friend Crito to escape the city that has condemned him. For Arendt, the dialogue instantiates the separation between humans as thinking beings and humans as acting beings, and so between political theory and philosophy. For others, the dialogue shows Socrates' reasoning to be self-contradictory. Socrates' introduction of the Athenian Laws as a world of greater moral force than the empirical Athens of Crito's appeal aims to ground principled action. Yet, there are many competing principles (authoritarianism, obedience, patriotism, friendship, integrity) that, interpretively speaking, have been understood as validated by this dialogue. Is there any necessary or analytic principle that can be articulated and, if so, what are the grounds of such? Drawing on the theory and methods of Blum and McHugh's analysis and Gadamer's hermeneutics, this article seeks to demonstrate that practical (political) action needs to be understood in an analytic context to grasp fully its ethical and political implications. Along the way, reference will be made to Garfinkel's articulation of members' methods for discovering agreements and Arendt's articulation of the common world that the conversation among friends sustains.

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Authors & Contributors
Brecht Buekenhout
Ustinova, Yulia
Jada Twedt Strabbing
Jorgenson, Chad
Hatzistavrou, Antony
Baima, Nicholas
Concepts
Philosophy and politics
Philosophy
Cognition
Psychology
Bible
Emotions; passions
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
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