PHI 2600 Lecture 61: PHI Chapter 61
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Socrates tells crito that he should attempt to break out of prison if and only if doing so would be. The expert on matters of justice and injustice, socrates says, is truth. Socrates would likely recommend which of the following responses to an unjust law? attempting to persuade the authorities to change or revoke it. Socrates says that the laws of athens have functioned in his life like parents. Socrates believes that allowing the athenians to carry out his unjust sentence would do serious harm to society. Socrates thinks one should disregard what most people believe about moral questions. In the crito, socrates claims that it is permissible to commit injustice in return for injustice. According to socrates, justice consists of treating others as they have treated you. Socrates tells crito that by choosing to live in a city, one agrees to live by its laws.
