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Dialogues on Plato's Politeia (Republic): selected papers from the Ninth Symposium Platonicum ; [Ninth Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society, held in Tokyo in August 2010]
In: International Plato Studies 31
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Article(electronic)#2April 27, 2023
Recontextualizing Philia: Two Verbal Echoes of Crito's Argument in The Speech of the Laws in Plato's Crito
In: Yearbook / New Europe College, Volume 2017-2018, 2018-2019, p. 9-29
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the recontextualization in the 'speech of the personified Laws' of two phrases in the argument of Socrates' interlocutor Crito. We will see that through this recontextualization, these two phrases are (1) invested with a new meaning, and (2) through acquiring this new meaning, disarm the original force of Crito's words. Since both of these phrases are part and parcel of the ancient Greek ideology of philia, the relation to one's kin and the obligations and loyalties this entails, this paper will first highlight how Crito's argument is indebted to philia-ideology, and proceed to show that, whilst upholding the overall importance of philia as loyalty per se, the same phrases become part of a different philia-relation in the Laws' speech: not between biological parent and son, but between the laws as parents and citizens as offspring.
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