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Class Responses and Instructor Comments

>From Avner Levy:

Socrates tells Crito
1. One should never do wrong, even when one is wronged.
2. To injure people would be to do wrong.
3. So one must never injure people.
4. Violating a just agreement causes injury to people.
5. Escape would be a violation of a just agreement.
6. Escape is wrong.
So, Socrates should not escape.

>rm says: This is the way I represented the argument Socrates provides for Crito in class. But this question was intended as a more general one. What is the question to which this argument is the answer?

Plato Reading Guide 43. How does Socrates approach the question of whether to escape?		Back to Plato Reading Guide Back to Philosophy 101 Home Next Question
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