Plato’s Crito and the Contradictions of Modern Citizenship

Matthew Dayi Ogali

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Plato’s Crito and the Contradictions of Modern Citizenship

Matthew Dayi Ogali

Published in International Journal of Philosophy (Volume 11, Issue 2)

Received: 20 December 2022 Accepted: 5 January 2023 Published: 24 May 2023

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Citizenship, with its presumptive rights, privileges and obligations, has been a fundamental challenge confronting the state since the classical Greek era and the transformation and reorganization of the centralized medieval Holy Roman Empire after the Thirty Years War. With the changing patterns of state formation from the large and unwieldy empires organized into absolutist states to the more nationalistic/linguistic formations a recurring issue has been the constitutional or legal guarantees of the rights of the citizen as well as his/her obligations to the state. This paper engaged in a nuanced study of Plato’s Crito as it relates the contradictions of citizenship as social membership and as participation in the modern state. The primary objective was to adapt Socrates’ experience to discuss the citizenship challenge in the modern state and driven by the research question on the implications of the emergence of new challenges to the contradictions of citizenship. Social contract theory by Thomas Hobbes served as the theoretical framework. Data collection was mainly from secondary sources such as academic journals, books, newspapers and internet sources, and data analysis based on the content and textual analysis of extant and relevant literature on the subject matter. Conclusively, the study realized that citizenship in the modern state is determined largely by the protection, in various ramifications, given to the citizen by the state, but that given a change in the circumstances many would decline to die for the state. Accordingly, it recommended a mutualism in the relationship and responsibilities between that state and the citizen of the modern state, particularly the underdeveloped states of the Third World.

Published in	International Journal of Philosophy (Volume 11, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijp.20231102.12
Page(s)	17-27
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Citizenship, Obedience, Law, Obligation, Justice, Honour

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