Socratic Citizenship as Salve to the Antinomy of Rules and Values

Citizenship of Socrates is unthinkable in the paradox of rules and values, and Plato regards the enforcement of strict laws as "noble lies" (Rep 112). However, although it is a guarantor of order in a fair city, it is misleading and impossible. It is absolutely correct. Krito, apology and the republic grabbed Plato 's tense job at work between substantial justice and formal justice. In a real justice system, the rules are flexible and act as "efficiency standards" (Unger 90) synonymous with justice and virtue.

With an apology, Socrates suggested a new citizenship that is opposed to traditional citizenship based on Homer 's poetry. Socrates is a philosophical citizen that relies on his own independent reason and judgment. Crito who speaks at Socrates 'prison thinks of citizen' s obedience, reverence, and responsibility for all citizens to respect and live under the law of the community.

It is a tradition of Socrates' s poetry education presented by Socrates over a century. An apology indicates that Socrates provides a new citizenship model, a new type of citizenship. His challenge to the poet was to some extent the foundation of resentment against him, where Aristophanes and his so-called early accusers brought it. Indeed, Aristophanes and the poet take Socrates seriously, Aristophanes invests throughout the drama and wrote the complete drama about Socrates called the cloud. Laugh at Socrates' s major. Aristophanes 'plays are sometimes included in several versions of the book you are reading, just like in this version, Aristophanes' cloud version, and apology and criticism.

For most people in Athens, Socrates is a talkative person, as most people are very practical. Playwright Aristophanes used Socrates as the subject of his play "clouds" and burned a meeting place of philosophers in the play. As everyone knows, Socrates is not politically active. He did not know the oligopolistic party who endorsed or supported Sparta with power at the end of the Peloponnesus War. But perhaps Socrates was involved with many aristocrats who favor the oligarchy who defeated Athens in the Peloponnese War, or because many of his students opposed democracy, some members of the democratic regime Let's suspicion. A leader of a new democratic regime arrested him