Analysis Of Socrates

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Socrates and Morality
Socrates is accused of impiety and for corrupting the lives of youths through his interactions with them and his teachings. Socrates defends his position on all charges believing he is doing just cause and in doing so is steadfastly abiding by his moral standards. Socrates believes that what matters is life and living it well. Socrates believes he should be rewarded rather than punished for his beliefs. He thinks he should be given free meals in the Prytaneum, where the Olympic athletes are celebrating or to pay a small sum of money which his friends raise to three times what Socrates proposes. In the end, Socrates accepts the judgment bestowed on him by the courts, the sentence of death. He accepts this verdict because he believes it is morally just to abide by the decision handed down by the state.
Crito, Socrates friend, has proposed several reasons that Socrates should not accept the verdict and should instead escape, Socrates ultimately believes that it would be morally unjust to …show more content…

Socrates asks Crito why he is concerned with what the majority might think about this decision. He continues to support the opinion that the majority may not always be correct in their assumptions. “My good Crito, why should we care so much for what the majority think? The most reasonable people, to whom one should pay more attention, will believe that things were done as they were done.” (Crito 44d). He further explains that the majority can also inflict the greatest evils if one is wronged among them. He uses the example of a man engaging in physical activity and whether he should pay attention to the opinion of any man or to one man only, namely a doctor or trainer? (Crito, 47a-b). When one follows the consensus of many instead of an expert, one can at times follow the wrong

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