Problem:
The Limits of Political Obligation. Several texts we have studied so far attempt to adjudicate the proper relationship between the citizen and the state. In Crito, Plato argues that the citizen is bound by duty to obey the laws of the state - even onto death.
Thomas Hobbes, despite agreeing that obedience is the hallmark of a good citizen, rejects the idea that we owe our lives to the state. Hobbes argues that the citizen has an absolute right to self-preservation, even if that means acting against the directives of the state. Who is right? Do we owe our lives to the state? Take a stance and write an essay on the limits of political obligation to the state using evidence from Plato's Apology, Crito, and Hobbes's Leviathan