Crito And Socrates Analysis

Crito goes on to explain that those who accused and sentence him is an act of injustice and by Socrates not escaping, Crito believes that he is acting unjustly by following what his accusers did to him. Crito believes, “it is not just for [Socrates] to do what [he is] doing, throwing away your life when [he] might save it” (Plato 82).
Again, Crito believes that Socrates not escaping is going to harm his own self as well as his friends (including Crito) as well as Socrates’s children. Crito states also that “most people will never believe that it was [him] who refused to leave this place when [they] tried [their] hardest to persuade [him]” (Plato 81). Many might see Crito has being a great friends who really wants Socrates to look at the bigger picture and think about how much better it would be for him to escape from the injustice that his accusers have caused upon him. It also seems as though Crito is looking out for his own …show more content…
Cebes views are sort of aligned with much of Socrates thinking. Socrates goes on to reaffirm the thoughts of Cebes which is that he thinks that “the soul is immortal, but merely long-lived, and pre-existed somewhere for a prodigious period of time, enjoying a great measure of knowledge and activity” (Plato 169). Socrates does not have any real criticism towards Cebes, but offer Cebes to listen to his own experience and take away some information from what was said. One of the responses Socrates brings up is that “opposite things come from opposite things… the opposite itself can never become opposite to itself – neither the opposite which is in us nor that which is in Nature” (Plato 180). Socrates uses an analogy of fire and snow to show the comparison with opposites. Fire and cold will never become their opposites because fire cannot emit coldness and cold cannot emit hotness. Therefore the connection Socrates makes here is that the soul always bring