question archive Q:What is the Crito about? Q:What is Crito's argument to Socrates? What does he want Socrates to do and why? Q:Should we follow the opinion of the many, who might rule over whether we die or not, or over the one of a wise opinion? How do we cause harm to ourselves in choosing the former? (47d) Q:What is the 'common ground' that Socrates requires from Crito? (49d-e)
Q:What is the Crito about? Q:What is Crito's argument to Socrates? What does he want Socrates to do and why? Q:Should we follow the opinion of the many, who might rule over whether we die or not, or over the one of a wise opinion? How do we cause harm to ourselves in choosing the former? (47d) Q:What is the 'common ground' that Socrates requires from Crito? (49d-e)
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Q:What is the Crito about?
Q:What is Crito's argument to Socrates? What does he want Socrates to do and why?
Q:Should we follow the opinion of the many, who might rule over whether we die or not, or over the one of a wise opinion? How do we cause harm to ourselves in choosing the former? (47d)
Q:What is the 'common ground' that Socrates requires from Crito? (49d-e).
Q: In line 50b, the laws ask Socrates, "By attempting this deed, aren't you planning to do nothing other than destroy us, the laws, and the civic community, as much as you can? Or does it seem possible to you that any city where the verdicts reached have no force bur are made powerless and corrupted by private citizens could continue to exist and not be in ruins?" The city, it seems, has rendered an unjust sentence of execution on
Socrates' life (at least in his and Crito's opinion). Why doesn't he therefore escape?
Is it just for the abused to become an abuser?
Could Socrates have left Athens at any point he wished?
Q:Why would other cities not welcome Socrates if he were to escape? (53b)
Q: Is a good and virtuous life possible if he escapes his sentence? Indeed, can he still teach
and credibly discuss the theme of 'virtue' with others if he escapes elsewhere?
Q:What is a Socratic dialogue? Why might we describe it as a 'literary drama'?
Q:What is the ethos of Greek Tragedy? (i.e. what is its view of the world and the gods?)
Q:Name and describe the three Delphic maxims inscribed at the Temple of Apollo. With these in mind, describe how Oedipus Rex a tragic figure?
Q: How are these maxims, or divinely imposed commands, reimagined in the spirit of Socrates (and namely in the Crito)?
Q:If Crito acts to excess, in what way does Socrates act virtuously?
Q:Describe 'Socratic Therapy' in terms of reasoned reflection. What sort of 'distance' does
reflection give us? What are we searching to discover and weed out? What is the
difference between a healthy and an unhealthy fear? Explain using Socrates as a model
of the former, Crito as a model of the latter.
Q:Describe friendship as a central virtue to the Crito in the context of a healthy political
environment? However, where does this healthy political environment begin? In grand
political theories? (Clue: not in grand political theories)
Q:Describe the 'comedy' of the Crito? How does it avoid tragedy?
