Preface 1 Introduction 2 Methodological Notes 3 Setting and Characters--Preliminary Notes 3.1 Role Reversal 3.2 Who is Crito (the Character)? 3.3 Who is Crito (Views and Values)? 3.4 Who is Crito (Social Status)? 3.5 Why Crito? Part 1 Revelation--(43a1-46a9) 4 Crito's Three Speeches 4.1 Crito's First Speech--Crito the Private Good Man--(43a1-43b9) 4.2 Crito's Second Speech--Crito the Decent Fellow Citizen--(43b10-44c5) 4.

3 Crito's Third Speech--Crito the Law-Abiding Citizen--(44c6-46a9)5 Crito's World-View 5.1 A General Description 5.2 Justice: Cognates and Derivatives Part 2 Rectification--(46b1-48a4) 6 An Attempt to Correct Crito's World-View 6.1 Socrates' First Stage--(46b1-47a11)--Opinions and Opiners 6.2 Socrates' Second Stage--(47a12-48a11)--the Expert vs. the Many Part 3 Refutation--(48a5-End) 7 The Laws' Speech--Preparation--(48a5-49e8) 7.1 The End of the Previous Move--(48a5-b1) 7.2 Socrates' Third Move--General Structure 7.

3 The Non Retaliation Decree (= NRD)--(48b2-49e3) 7.4 The Agreement Argument (= AA)--(49e9-50a5)8 The Laws' Speech--Introduction--(50a6-c4) 9 The Laws' Speech--1: The Non-Equal Argument (= NEA)--(50c5-51c5) 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The Preface--(50c5-10) 9.3 The Non-Equal Argument (= NEA)--(50c10-51c5) 9.4 The 'More than Parents Argument' (= MPA)--(51a7-c5) 9.5 Persuade or Obey10 The Laws' Speech--2: The Agreement Argument (= AA)--(51c6-52d8) 10.1 Introduction--(51c6-8) 10.

2 The Agreement Argument (= AA)--(51c8-52a3) 10.3 The 'More Loyal Argument' (= MLA)--(52a3-53a8)11 The Laws' Speech--The Benefit Argument (= BA)--(53a9-54b2) 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Harmful to Socrates' Friends--(53a9-b3) 11.3 Going to Neighboring Poleis--(53b3-d1) 11.4 Going to Distant Poleis--(53d1-54a2) 11.5 The Children Argument--(54a2-b2)12 Conclusion to the Laws' Speech--(54b3-54e2) 13 Plato's Crito --Rhetoric and Democracy 13.1 Rhetoric--Introduction 13.

2 The Worthlessness of Speeches 13.3 Rhetorical Persuasion Is Violence 13.4 --Obey or Be Persuaded 13.5 Democracy14 Plato's Crito --Conclusion Appendix 1: Plato's Crito --A Concluding Remark Appendix 2: Scheme of the Dialogue Bibliography Index.