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Class Responses and Instructor Comments

>From MILDRED FERENTINO:

"Be sure that if you kill the sort of man I say I am you will not harm me in any way; he could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse; certainly he might kill me, or perhaps banish or disfranchise me, which he and maybe others think to be great harm, but I do not think so." pg 35

rm says: So, why would Socrates think this; why can't a better man be harmed by a worse?

>From Avrohom:

'you cannot hurt me, by killing me, if you do, you are just hurting youselves by depriving yourselves of my teachings.' If Meletus and Anytus kill Socrates, altough Socrates will be dead, he will have died for what he lived for, thereby making what he lived for even stronger. so by killing Socrates, Meletus and Anytus are hurting themselves. "For a bad man is not permitted to injure a better than himself."

>rm says: Good. Now, from the fact that Meletus and Anytus may be more injured, does it follow that Socrates is uninjured? That is, is Socrates right, here?

Plato Reading Guide 26. Why does Socrates say that Meletus and Anytus can not harm him?		Back to Plato Reading Guide Back to Philosophy 101 Home Next Question
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