An Analysis of the Personified Laws’ Speech in Plato’ Crito (플라톤『크리톤』의 ‘의인화된 법률 연설’ 분석)

Kim Tae Kyung (김태경)

An Analysis of the Personified Laws’ Speech in Plato’ Crito

Journal of Humanities
2010, (46), pp.179-201
Publisher : Institute for Humanities
Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
Received : April 12, 2010
Accepted : August 20, 2010

Kim Tae Kyung ¹

¹성균관대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to analyze the personified Laws’ speech in Plato’s Crito. This speech is interpreted with respect to obedience to law and disobedience to law. According to the interpretation with respect to disobedience to law, Socrates don’t claim that even though the law is bad, we are obligated to obey it. But according to the interpretation with respect to obedience to law, Socrates claims the limit of obligation to obey the law that we are obligated to obey the law only if it is just,but he claims the obligation to obey it. Therefore focusing on the personified Laws’ speech, this paper, by arguing these three propositions(1. disobedience to law harms persons, 2. the relationship between citizen and state is analogous to that between child and parent, 3. the citizen makes a tacit compact to obey the laws), reveals grounds of obedience to law. So grasping these three propositions meaning, this paper shows these three propositions relevance. At last this paper provides Plato’s apparent reference that the law is to be obeyed only if its commands are morally just.

KEYWORDS

the Speech of the Personified Law, Obedience to Law, Disobedience to Law, the Relationship between Citizen and State, the Relationship between Child and Parent, a Tacit Compact, Political Obligation, the Personal Nature of the Civil Bond, Filial Obligation, Contractual Obligation, Absolute Obedience to the State, the Unequal Relationship of Citizen and State

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