Crito
Justice, Duty, and Civil Disobedience – Socrates’ Reflections from His Prison Cell

- Socrates? I'm terribly sorry to be disturbing you shortly before your impending execution, but-- - And who are you? - My name is Manny. I'm a visitor from the future. I-- - Again. It's been one visitor after another this evening. First my extremely well-meaning friend Crito trying to save me, and the......more

Critón va a visitar a Sócrates a la prisión y le propone huir. A partir de aquí, se desarrolla el pensamiento socrático a través de sus silogismos sobre lo justo y lo injusto. ---------------------------- Crito goes to visit Socrates in prison and proposes to escape. From this point on, Socratic thoug......more

The saga of Socrates’ trial and death continues. This time his friend, Crito, visits him in his cell to try to persuade him to escape into exile. Socrates is true to form, insisting that nothing—not the reputation of himself or his friend, nor concern for his own life—ought to be considered except r......more

kriton, sokrates’in eski bir dostu olarak onu hapishanede ziyaret eder ve ona kaçması için bir fırsat sunar. sokrates’in vereceği yanıtsa felsefesinin temelini oluşturan ahlâki duruşunu ve siyaset felsefesini yansıtır. sokrates için mesele yalnızca hayatta kalmak değil, doğruyu yapmaktır. kriton’un s......more

This is the most powerful evangelical piece of pagan literature that I’ve read. Socrates is so very Christ-like: he’s not afraid of death, he’s extremely magnanimous, and he’s submitting to injustice because there’s a higher justice that will be accomplished through it. I love it.......more