Socrates Dissatisfied: An Analysis of Plato's Crito Book

1	Introduction: A Dissatisfied Socrates	3
2	Remaining at the Station	7
	Justice and Philosophy	7
	Authority and Law	8
	Gods and "The God"	15
	Athens	24
	Proper Conduct in Court	27
	The Penalties	30
	Hades	36
3	Running the Risk for Friendship	39
	Crito as Socrates' Friend	39
	The Unphilosophical Crito	43
	Crito's Conception of the Just, the Brave, and the Shameful	49
	Crito's Questionable Morality	51
	Crito's Manner of Addressing Socrates	54
4	The Philosophical Argument against Escape	57
	Socrates' Procedure for Solving Moral Questions	58
	Socrates' Moral Principles	63
	Socrates' Argument against Escape	72
	Socrates as Crito's Friend	81
5	"Especially an Orator"	84
	Protecting Crito	85
	The Laws as Rhetoricians	86
	The Citizen's Agreement	88
6	"Whatever We Bid"	96
	The City as Parent and Master	98
	The Argument from Agreement	112
	Escape Will Benefit No One	124
7	The Corybantic Cure	134
	The Corybantic Metaphor	134
	Why Crito Would "Speak in Vain"	140
	The Way the God Is Leading	143
8	A Fool Satisfied	146
	Engaging Crito	150
	Benefiting Crito	155
	Protecting the Reader	158
9	Restoring the Radical Socrates	161
	Bibliography	171
	Index	175