Crito

to die because the factors of being old were starting to get to him, so there was no reason to prolong his death. While Plato states that Socrates had no reason to fear death since his conscience was clean. Socrates wasn 't going to run away when Crito gave him them opportunity to do so after his sentence because he respected the government system and didn 't want people to view him as a criminal for running away. Socrates devoted his life to Apollo and exploring wisdom. His only crime, if any,…

The exchange happens in the little Peloponnesian town of Phlius, home to Echecrates. Echecrates is being gone to by Phaedo, one of Socrates' admirers who was available at his passing. Echecrates has heard the account of Socrates' trial (described in The Apology), yet has additionally heard that there was a long defer between the trial and Socrates' execution. Phaedo brings up that the day preceding the trial of Socrates, the Athenians had wrapped up the boat to Delos. Consistently, the Athenians…

Should I Really Stick it to The Man? Draft In 1943, siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed under the nazi Germany regime. Their crime; treason for being part of the non-violent resistance group against Hitler’s dictatorship, the White Rose, and for distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich. The nazi’s authority between the years 1933 to 1945 was nearly absolute and their leadership ultimately lead to their downfall. However, people can be ignorant on what their…

Some may say it is never morally acceptable to break the law. Plato supported this claim in Crito through Socrates, the main character with the option of escaping from prison. He was imprisoned and sentenced by the Athenian court to death for corrupting the youth. His friend Crito challenges Socrates with various arguments as to why he should break the law by escaping from prison. Opposed, some say it is morally acceptable to break the law. Martin Luther King would support this position. King…

From the inside of a jail cell, Martin Luther King Jr. expressed the fact that breaking laws that are not just isn’t wrong, although his actions have landed him in jail he writes with joy, because it is his protest that has landed him in jail, and being in jail means people are paying attention to his cause. He believes that laws that are unjust are only meant to be broken because they are not really laws. As were the Jim Crow laws of degraded the mentality and forced the spirit of African…

law in remaining and facing death. Conflicted, Socrates explores the meaning of just and unjust laws. King explores similar terrains in asking the question, "How can you advocate breaking the laws and obeying others?" In the end, Socrates convinces Crito that it would be best to remain in jail and not attempt an escape. This makes him civily disobedient in the sense that he does not conform to the common way (he does not want to escape jail even though he was unjustly imprisoned). Dr. Martin…

course. Plato’s “Crito” has so many of Socrates…

Morality and Necessity: What Makes a Prince Just? Whether using the Machiavellian terminology (i.e. the prince) or the Socratic nouns (i.e. citizen, philosopher, or civil servant), the three literary works, “The Apology”, “Crito”, and “The Prince”, address the same topic: what should a leader be. Socrates valued individual characteristics considered to be moral and just more than anything. He was not afraid to place leaders to the same standard as the ordinary citizen and in fact encouraged…

essay, Phaedo, Plato gives us Socrates’s idea of the life of a philosopher, in what is his final hours before he drinks the poison. This takes place a couple of days after Crito. The setting is in Socrates’s cell, his wife and children are with him, but leave before he drinks the poison. Also in the cell with him is Phaedo, Crito, Cimmias and Cebes, to ask the question, “why is Socrates egger to drink the poison?” He answers with, to study philosophy is to prepare yourself for death (64a).…

Carl: Sam, would you say that Socrates' trial was not fair because he was not guilty of the sentenced crimes? Sam: Well it was an extreme denunciation for such petty accusations. Carl: Since we agree that Socrates was wronged, I think Socrates was stoically accepting unjust Laws. He didn’t try to convince the jury of his innocence. Do you think Socrates did right by staying and facing death, or should he have escaped? Sam: I think that Socrates believed that he was doing the right thing by…