Crito

Crito 1.) The Crito was written by Plato, who recounted the conversation held between Crito and Socrates just before his death. Socrates was charged with the corruption of the youth and was given a choice of exile or death. He chose death, and Crito was not at all happy about his decision. Crito felt that Socrates had been wronged by the government and should escape into exile. Socrates disagreed, saying that responding to evil with evil is wrong. If Socrates escaped, he would be doing harm to society as a whole. By escaping it could be seen as him trying to destroy the laws and in turn, the whole city by his actions, undermining the law. Socrates feels that “You must either persuade it [the laws] or obey its orders, and endure in silence whatever it instructs you to endure… (p.51)” In other words, Socrates feels that it is wrong to protest the laws of the city because it disrupts the society, making them think that it’s okay to disobey laws and to protest and be violent against them, ultimately ruining the structural society. By escaping into exile, Socrates would be going against socrates, society, people, just, exile, whole, laws, evil, doing, moral, death, crito, city, stronger, right, means, harm, good, going, weaker, unjust, think, therefore, should, saying, rulers, philosophy, out, others, one, now, nation, making, made, justice