However, Socrates first introduced the idea in Plato's dialogue the Crito, sections 50a-54d. ... "The only passage I meet with in antiquity where the obligation of obedience is ascribed to a promise is in Plato's Crito, where Socrates refuses to escape from prison because he had tacitly promised to obey the laws." ... "The only passage I meet with in antiquity where the obligation of obedience is ascribed to a promise is in Plato's Crito, where Socrates refuses to escape from prison because he had tacitly promised to obey the laws." ...

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The works of Plato were particularly compelling, and a ring of Neoplatonic researchers headed by Marsilio Ficino (1433 "1499) looked to circuit Christian thought with Platonic philosophy. ... Its procedures were recorded and clarified in treatises written in the vernacular by Leon Battista Alberti (1404 "1472), who made the standards of point of view attracting and painting open to a wide mixed bag of specialists who needed to realize this popular methodology. ...

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For example, while Plato basically disagreed with suicide, he felt it should be an option in extreme circumstances, such as in cases of unmanageable suffering. On the other hand, Plato's student Aristotle believed that there was no justifiable reason to commit suicide. ...

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Death Comes for the Archbishop Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) is about two nineteenth-century French priests, Father Vaillant and Father Lour, who come to America to establish a mission in the southwestern desert which changes them. Main Characters - -Father Jean Marie Latour, Vicar Apostalic of New Mexico -Father Joseph Vaillant, his friend, a missionary priest -Kit Carson, frontier scout -Jacinto, an Indian guide Plot - This historical novel is set in nineteenth century New Mexico and describes the experiences of two well-bred French priests sent there to establish Catholicism in ...

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