La crisis de la noción de legalidad y la defensa de la ley por Sócrates

Laura Sancho Rocher

doi:10.3989/isegoria.2023.69.21

Authors

Laura Sancho Rocher Universidad de Zaragoza https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0926-0442

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2023.69.21

Keywords:

Law, Unwritten-law, Persuasion, Obedience, Democracy

Abstract

In this essay I analyze Socrates’ controversial stance regarding the laws of Athens; both the democratic positive law and the traditional and unwritten law. I survey the sources we have, especially Plato’s Apology and Crito, and Xenophon’s Memorabilia, and I conclude that, throughout his long life, Socrates never stopped trying to persuade his city and his fellows of what was just, maintaining that it was not fair under any circumstances to do harm, nor to break the laws or orders of a superior authority (human or divine).

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