Essay - Socrates Within the Apology and the Crito are Outlined Several...

Socrates

Within the Apology and the Crito are outlined several points of extreme importance to Socrates regarding the nature ***** civic duty. Some have said that the two works contradict one another in that in the ***** Socrates states that he would break the law if *****re were a law made that said he could no longer practice philosophy and in the Crito he outlines ***** dire responsibility to uphold the laws of the state, ***** in this case allow himself to be put to death, rather than fleeing. (p.371) This work will argue that there is no contradiction in the messages of Socrates, as he is consistently alluding to the idea that the *****, though just ***** being applied unjustly, in his conviction.

***** ***** short says that it is just ***** ***** and ***** a law forbidding ***** corruption of youth and the denial ***** God, but applying such a ***** to his own actions ***** teaching is un*****. Socrates, having plead h***** case in the Apology, and having lost to ***** opinion of the many which he discred*****s in t***** Crito, (p. 390) has done him no harm as the few who are good and righteous will see the error, before or after his ***** no matter. The duty to follow one's own *****s overshadows any desire to ***** fur*****r than the truth or flee, ***** do*****g so would be contrary to self, which is contrary to God and *****fore civic responsibility.

*****, believes that h***** responsibility to Athens, ***** to god is ***** maintain the calling set for him, he does not say he ***** break t***** law if he was to be given t***** option ***** leaving the court never ***** ***** philosophy again, he ***** he would rather die ***** live a life contrary to God by ***** practicing ***** for the betterment of the world, and ***** *****. In other words, his honor is to serve ***** and Athens and accepting such a sentence would be ***** to both. 'Wherever a m*****n has taken up a position because he considers it best, or ***** been posted there by his commander, that is where I believe he should remain, steadfast in danger, taking no account at all of de*****h ***** of anything else rather than disho*****r." (p. 380) Socrates believes ***** the people who ***** accusing and convicting him in his trial are abandon*****g the truth and therefore living contrary to God and to the state of their own souls. In so doing they are not living justly w*****hin the *****s, or ***** them justly. (p.*****) Socrates *****rofesses ***** have *****ders from ***** to question those who do ***** act in goodness, but claim to, and in so doing he establishes himself as an enemy to ***** who wish ***** live in denial of their own failings, seeking fortune but not goodness. (p. 381) "In *****, as in warfare, neither I nor anyone else should contrive to escape death at any cost." (p. 385)