[lbo-talk] Re: biz ethics/slavery/groups/constitutional rights

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
Sun Aug 22 09:58:15 PDT 2004


On Aug 21, 2004, at 9:55 PM, Brian Charles Dauth wrote:


> Jon writes:
>
>> Perhaps it would not be amiss to recommend that anyone worried about
>> this
> conflict between right and democracy have a look at Plato's "Apology"
> and
> "Crito."
>
> Are there any particular versions you recommend?

Doesn't matter too much, but try to avoid 19th-century ones (e.g., Jowett); they tended to sacrifice accuracy for "literary value" a bit too much.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, 'So is the London Tavern.' -- "Tom Paine's Jests..." (1794); also attr. to John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) by Hazlitt



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