Crito

Five Dialogues & Symposium: Socrates’ Search for Knowledge In Five Dialogues and Symposium by Plato, Socrates the Ancient Greek philosopher challenges his fellow men about the notion that they do not posses knowledge. The role of a philosopher is to reflect on life and ask existential questions because curiosity is innate in all humans. In Apology, Socrates expresses to the jury and judges at his trial, “they have been proved to lay claim to knowledge when they know nothing” (Apology, 23d).…

When Is It Wrong to Obey Authority? In the recent discussions on authority, a major dispute has been whether it is wrong to obey authority. On one side of the argument, some claim that obeying authority is wrong. From this perspective, many people see Milgram’s shock experiment and Zimbardo’s prison experiment as examples of how dangerous obeying authority is. As Milgram states the subjects in the experiment were “proud of doing a good job, obeying the experimenter under difficult…

Politics and ethics are two vital components of a functioning society. When these two components are carefully balanced a sate/society can remain organized and fair to its citizens. In a realistic society the idea of what political ethics and human nature consist of varies, but in an idealistic society political ethics and human nature possess a common ground. Political ethics and human nature were a mutual understanding at some point but as societies grew, citizens began to think as individuals…

because of the situation thrust upon her, when she stood for what she believed to be just even though it cost her life. No one hero becomes a hero the same way, but there is one commonality. They were not born heroes, but they became heroes. In The Crito, Socrates, a philosopher, likens himself to the hero Achilles. He views his willingness to die for the preservation of justice to…

Socrates' who was there in his final hours. Echecrates wants to hear the story from a first-hand, and presses for information. Phaedo explains a number of Socrates' friends were gathered in his cell prior to his execution. Some of these people included Crito, and two philosophers who go by the name of Simmias and Cebes. Simmias was a philosopher from Thebes and Cebes was from Phaedondas. During the dialogue Socrates suggest that suicide is wrong, but he believes a true philosopher should look…

Echecrates, knowing that Phaedo was present in the moments leading to Socrates’ execution, pleads with him to recount his final conversation with Socrates. Phaedo notes that a number of Socrates’ friends were present in his cell including Crito and two Pythagorean philosophers, Simmias and Cerbes. The group’s discussion begins with Socrates presenting a central theme of the text: that philosopher should look forward to death. Although he argues that suicide lacks a moral justification, Socrates…

tremendously under the influences of his master that leaving behind what he thought of becoming and become a philosopher. Plato’s subtle soul had found a new joy in the dialectic game of Socrates. The last discussion of Socrates was held immortalized in Crito. Plato could not attend the discussion because of some illness. In 399 BC when he was twenty-eight years old it was a turning point in his life. In that his master was put on trial before the Athenian courts on charge of disbelieving in the…

body. Plato recognizes that all people have faults, but people need to realize what their mistake was and work towards improving themselves by gaining knowledge. The dialogues represent this through Socrates’ experience with Euthyphro, Meno, and Crito; Euthyphro was prosecuting his father because he thought it was pious, but he did not understand what true piety is which is why Socrates had to guide him by asking genuine questions about what piety is. In Meno, Plato discusses what type of…

Laws have become a very indispensable component of every human society and the relevance of laws can never be undermined. Laws are made in a society for the preservation of that society by ensuring orderliness and peaceful co-existence of its members. It also guarantees the sovereignty of the state and its authority. Laws prescribe the conducts and behaviours of people within the society so as to ensure that every member of the society acts in accordance with the supreme interest of the society.…

In Thomas Hobbs’s Leviathan, he asserts that to have order in a society there must be an absolute sovereignty to defend against war and conflicts and that within a society, there must be regulation to avoid internal conflict. Hobbs theorizes we must give up our individual rights to a greater governing authority and that doing so is essential to our survival. Indeed, his assertion is valid because human instinct tends to be self-interested; humans will do whatever it takes to survive, so an…