Today I will be examining Socrates decision to stay in jail and how his dear friend Crito was trying to help him escape. I will also be looking at then logos, Pathos, and Ethos. I will be looking at the facts and breaking them down to see if his decision is more Logical, emotional, or Ethical.
Socrates is in jail and his dear friend Crito is trying to convince him to escape from sure death. Crito tells Socrates that he has people ready to break him out. All Socrates has to do is give him the okay. However, Socrates does not want to be broken out because he feels like he would go against everything he has taught. Also, Socrates needs good reasoning because he is logical. Socrates argues that he was born in there and that the Laws are like …show more content…
Socrates says, ““For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind…Say that you wish to live for the sake of your children, that you may bring them up and educate them- will you take them into Thessaly and deprive them of Athenian citizenship? Is that the benefit which you would confer upon them.” This show his ethics of being a standup man. Socrates feels that if he escapes jail than his integrity will be called into question, which it clearly already has. However, if he was to leave what example would he be setting to his family and followers. To Socrates he is telling everyone to listen and obey your government no matter what they do because this is right in the eyes if the gods.
In closing I feel like it was better for Socrates to escape than to stay in jail and take death, because he was falsely telling his followers to obey the government no matter what they do to you. Like I stated above it is easier to obey than it is to revolt and go against the grain. This to me would have been a correct thing for Socrates to teach. Crito was right for trying to break Socrates out of jail, because he could see what was going to happen if Socrates was put to death. For many people would take that this as Socrates being
Socrates is in jail and his dear friend Crito is trying to convince him to escape from sure death. Crito tells Socrates that he has people ready to break him out. All Socrates has to do is give him the okay. However, Socrates does not want to be broken out because he feels like he would go against everything he has taught. Also, Socrates needs good reasoning because he is logical. Socrates argues that he was born in there and that the Laws are like …show more content…
Socrates says, ““For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind…Say that you wish to live for the sake of your children, that you may bring them up and educate them- will you take them into Thessaly and deprive them of Athenian citizenship? Is that the benefit which you would confer upon them.” This show his ethics of being a standup man. Socrates feels that if he escapes jail than his integrity will be called into question, which it clearly already has. However, if he was to leave what example would he be setting to his family and followers. To Socrates he is telling everyone to listen and obey your government no matter what they do because this is right in the eyes if the gods.
In closing I feel like it was better for Socrates to escape than to stay in jail and take death, because he was falsely telling his followers to obey the government no matter what they do to you. Like I stated above it is easier to obey than it is to revolt and go against the grain. This to me would have been a correct thing for Socrates to teach. Crito was right for trying to break Socrates out of jail, because he could see what was going to happen if Socrates was put to death. For many people would take that this as Socrates being