Crito

1) Compare the role of human reason in Oedipus the King with its role in Plato’s Crito Although providing similar framework and subject matter, Oedipus the King and Plato’s Crito explore the influence of the enchanted and disenchanted Greek world differently. This allows for a deep exploration of the role of human reasoning within the two texts. Both text’s as a whole generally explore the same main points of Greek reasoning, yet key differences among the themes of the disenchanted and…

500 Athenian citizens. Plato’s Crito is named after a wealthy friend of Socrates who the philosopher invokes during his defense as an example of one of the men present in the jury who had enough exposure to his teachings, whether directly or through relatives, to have grounds to testify as a witness against Socrates if indeed his teachings were corrupting the young. An analysis of Socrates’ defense in Apology and the Laws’ defense (anthropomorphized by Socrates) in Crito suggests that Socrates…

of Sophocles and Plato, one can discover that the Athenian’s respect towards the governing power, changed during the Classical Athens period. Although the Ancient Athenian government seemed to have control over its people, Antigone of Sophocles and Crito of Plato reveal that from 441 BCE to 360 BCE, the citizens began to lose respect for the…

In his emphasis on virtue and the search for guidance within it, Socrates applies his Socratic method in the Euthyphro, the Apology, and the Crito as a means to alter the fixed mindsets and behaviors of the antagonists that surround him. For example, the individual responsibility of moral obligation is defended by Socrates’ conceptual mode of his philosophical method in his tearing down of his subjects’ preconceived notions on a topic, such as that of ‘What is piety?’ in Plato’s Euthyphro. In…

Socrates refuses Crito’s invitation to escape because by doing so he breaks the laws of Athens. Socrates explains to Crito that by exiling himself he not only breaks one law, he breaks them all; this is due to the fact that as a citizen you support the laws, and breaking one law would end your endorsement. These laws carry great importance to Socrates, because by escaping he breaks the law from which he was fostered, educated, and begat his children. By exiling himself, Socrates cannot enter…

nor influential as Machiavelli’s consummate discussion of politics, known as the Prince. Equally if not more significant, however, is Plato’s account of the Apology by Socrates and the subsequent events illustrated by the famous Greek philosopher in Crito between Socrates and his titular comrade. Both texts, being written in times of abundant political alteration and conflict, make powerful statements about politics and take firm stances on the function governments and how they should be used to…

we see a plentitude amount of people witnessing Socrates drink hemlock. As everyone interprets the death scene a little differently, we will come to see that people will make their own conjecture about how Socrates’ death actually happened. With Crito being the only witness, we may never know how Plato actually wrote this story and the validity behind it. With many different stories, opinions, and assumptions, we see an abundance of similarities and distinction between the painting and the text…

learned about Socrates and Crito, which was a story by Plato. In this story, Socrates was unjustly imprisoned so Crito had come by to visit him and try to persuade him to escape. Socrates had strong morals and values, and one of his duties as a citizen of Athens was so stick by the law. In a way to explain to Crito, Socrates uses the example of people in everyday life. “And what of doing evil in return for evil, which is the morality of the many-is that just or not just?” (Crito 460). In this…

moral reasoning behind obeying laws. It is also crucial to culturally educate oneself on the importance of the architecture of the past and its continued influence today. In this paper, I will discuss the importance of the emergence of democracy, the Crito, by Plato, and the Parthenon. The political system of democracy emerged during the Hellenic Era. At the time, the main political…

Socrates views of civil disobedience are not as consistent in Crito and in the Apology as his words and actions were in life. Although he is known to be an authentic, honest and wise man who took pride in recognizing ignorance while searching for the truth, at the end of his journey, his views seemed to be inharmonious with previous statements. Initially, he tries to persuade the jury, advises them to spare him as they would not find anyone else like him and attempts to justify his actions using…