Monday, November 26, 2007

Crito

Socrates is very stubborn, he completely burns Crito when he tries to convince him to escape. He talks about how the law allowed him to be born because otherwise his parents wouldn't have gotten married and a lot about how the law did so much for him that he feels he should give back to it. I thought it was weird because he really doesn't fear death he knows he's right and he doesn't want to break the law by escaping. It ties back to our law vs justice essay because Socrates talks about how he believes that justice is more important than staying around to teach his children, even though Crito tries to play the selfishness card on him, it doesn't work. Socrates is a guy with a lot of morals and he follows them even if they lead to his own end.

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