PHIL110B Study Guide - Final Guide: Virtue Ethics, Deontological Ethics, Universalizability
12 Jan 2017
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Normative premise: one should not break ones agreements. Factual premise: escaping punishment would involve breaking an agreement if one remains in a state when they have the opportunity to go, they agree to obey the laws. Socrates has stayed, even though he could have left. Conclusion: therefore, socrates ought not to escape. Socrates accusers have unjustly sentenced him using the same laws that he is attempting to follow by not escaping. He would be abbeting the wrong doing of his punishers by following through with their wishes. But in disobeying their wishes, he would be harming the laws, which are just, right and fair. A scenario in which people are chained to seats where all they can see are shadowy gures on the wall. A philosopher unchains themselves from the con ned seat. What is going on that screen is a representation of what is really happening. Something bigger is going on behind the scenes.
