PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ideal Type, Eudaimonia
23 Sep 2015
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Crito is a dialogue that occurs after socrates" trial. Crito, one of socrates close friends comes to socrates in prison and tells him that he and socrates" other friends are going to break him out. They have bribed the guards and everything is in place. Socrates can go into exile in a nearby city, thessaly, where his powerful friends will protect him. Socrates declines the offer to escape prison. He does not fear death, and he says he will accept the punishment. He will not disobey the gods and the divine mission he is meant to be on just so he can continue living. However, socrates"s friends believe, with good reason, that the trial wasn"t actually about political trouble but about the people of athens" personal dislike of socrates. Therefore, it could be argued that socrates"s trial was unfair. In crito , the debate isn"t really a question about socrates the individual person.
