Socrates' arguments in Crito

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Socrates was born in 469 BC Athens. He was one of the first Athenian philosophers who lived the life during the times of Athenian Empire and the Pericles Empire. At the age of early forties or so, he began to feel an urge to understand and think about the world around him, and tried to answer the simplest yet complicated questions in human mind. He used to ask himself that, "What is perception?" and "What is beauty?" and "What is the right thing to do?” In 399 BC, he was charged for teaching, and corrupting the youth with bad things and this is when these dialogues between Socrates and his rich friend Crito comes to existence. These discussions were written down by Socrates student Plato after Socrates death (Carr 2011).

The subject matter of Plato's Crito is, actually, compliance to law. Socrates discusses this subject matter with a man who has just admitted to mortifying a law-enforcement official. The conversation begins with Crito's admittance (or perhaps even boasts) that he obtained access to Socrates through doing something for the prison guard.

In simple words, it is a dialogue between Socrates and his rich friend Crito on the subject of justice, injustice, and the suitable reaction to it. According to Socrates, injustice might not be answered with injustice, and rejects Crito's offer of funding his break out from jail. This discussion contains an antique assertion of the social contract theory of government.

However, these papers will only deal with the arguments made by Socrates in The dialogue called the "Crito" and whether these arguments have a good point of views or not.

This dialogue starts just two days before the execution of Socrate, when an old friend named Crito came to visit him. Crito told Socrates that plans were in a position ...