Socrates And Maintaining A Harmony What Is Right And Expression Of Opinions

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Term Paper Title	Socrates And Maintaining A Harmony What Is Right And Expression Of Opinions
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Socrates and Maintaining a Harmony What is Right and Expression of Opinions

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 begining of the dialog, Crito is expressing his feelings of why
he believes Socrates should flee from the city.  Crito makes many valid points
on why he disagrees with Socrates decision to bare this misfortune.  Crito
offers to do  on not fleeingbeing majorints expressing to Socrates, that a man
as courageous as Socrates and who has lived his life through virtue . AYou seem
to me to choose the easiest path, whereas one should choose the path a good and
courageous man would choose, particularly when one claims throughout one's life
to care for virtue.@(Crito p.59d)  Through the dialogue the questions and
answers within Socrates and Crito establish to major themes in which hold true
throughout the work.  The first being that a person must decide whether the
society in which one lives has a just reasoning behind it's own standards of
right and wrong.  The second being, that a person must have pride in the life
that he or she leads.  In establishing basic questions of these two concepts,
Socrates has precluded his own circumstance and attempted to prove to his
companion Crito, that the choice that he has made is just. AI am the kind of
man who listens only to the argument that on reflection seems best to me.  I
cannot, now that this fate has come upon me, discard the arguments I used; they
seen to me much the same.@(Crito p.59b)   The introduction of this work has
also provided the concept that it is our society or majority that has dictated
what is considered virtuous action. According to Socrates we have been given
every opportunity to ...

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