Purdue University Philosophy Socrates & Crito Discussion
write an opinioned response answering the question being presented.
Hello Everyone, On page 12, Socrates says ‘But as it is you leave us, if indeed you depart, having been done an injustice not by us, the laws, but by men’. If Socrates knows that he was put into prison unrightfully by men, why doesn’t he try to get out of prison? On page 10, the text says “persuade us if we are doing something improper”, it seems like he is able to talk/persuade men that he was unrightfully been sentenced to death. But he is not trying to persuade anyone that he was unrightfully been sentenced. He is having a conversion with Crito on why he should not get out through Crito means, but he could have gotten out by persuading the men that unrightfully judged him. What is the point of continuing this sentence if he knows that he was unrightfully judged? What is keeping him from leaving and speaking up that he was unrightfully sentenced to death?
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