Episode 149: Plato's "Crito": A Performance and Discussion
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2016
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Broadway stars Walter Bobbie and Bill Youmans perform Plato's dialogue in which Socrates awaits his execution. Should Socrates defy the verdict and try to escape the city? Socrates says no; that would be ungrateful to the city whose benefits he's enjoyed. Bill joins the full PEL foursome for a lively discussion.
End song: "Fall Away" by Mark Lint and the Fake from the album So Whaddaya Think? (2000).
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| 0:30.0 | You're listening to partially examined life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who at one |
| 0:36.6 | point said on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. |
| 0:40.2 | Our question for episode of 149 is, should you always obey the law, or maybe, can injustice |
| 0:45.4 | ever be justified? |
| 0:46.4 | And we're going to be hearing a full performance of Plato's dialogue of the Crito, and then |
| 0:51.0 | discussing it. |
| 0:52.6 | You can join the discussion, get the text and lots more information at partiallyexaminalife.com. |
| 0:57.6 | This is Mark Linton-Meier, set to go home on the third day in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:02.4 | This is Seth Pascon, gentilly accepting the judgment of the mob in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:09.6 | This is Wes All-One, loving it or leaving it, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:14.0 | This is Dylan Casey, wondering what's up with Thessaly in the middle of Wisconsin. |
| 1:20.7 | This is Bill Eumann's civilly disobedient in New York City. |
| 1:25.6 | Hey, so this is a special one. |
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