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Socrates and Maintaining a Harmony What is Right and Expression of Opinions


Socrates has thoroughly justified his own decision to obey the opinions of the
majority and serve out the sentence that his own city has deemed appropriate
for his crimes. At the beginning of this piece, Socrates has presented a
period of questions and answers through dialogue with Crito. Throughout the
dialogue Socrates is explaining his reasoning for not running from the
government. Crito does not understand the madness of Socrates, Crito will do
whatever it takes to help his friend to flee, instead of being exiled by the
government. AI do not think that what you are doing is right, to give up your
life when you can save it, and to hasten your fate as your enemies would hasten
it, and indeed have hastened it in their wish to destroy you.@(Crito p.58c)

Throughout the beginning
of the dialog, Crito is expressing his feelings of why
he believes Socrates should flee from the city. Crito makes many......

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