Plato: The Apology and Crito. Isaac Flagg

Defiance, Persuasion, or Conformity? The Argument in Plato's Apology and Crito

While the relation between the individual and the state belongs clearly to one of the most complex issues in Western political philosophy, the relation between the Socrates of the Apology and that of the Crito ranks, accordingly, as one of the most contentious problems in the entire Socratic scholarship. This is due to the fact that in the Apology (29 c–d) one is confronted with a defiant rebel...

Virtual logic - The Flagg Resolution

Consider the statement: J= ‘This statement is false.’ If J is true then J states that J is false. If J is false then J states that J is true. Thus we can write J = Not J. One might shun such a statement, but perhaps there is a way to deal with it. One solution that has been proposed is to say that J has a new kind of truth value, neither true nor false, and to devise a logic with more than two ...

The Apology

This is the second issue featuring a selected piece from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghese and Richard Selzer, among the best known physician-writers in the United States, have served as workshop leaders, teaching the craft of writing to more than 35 residents. In designing the workshop, Anna B. Reisman, assista...

Plato and Innatism

Apology