Evaluating Socrates

Introduction

If one considers only Plato's Republic, one can easily overlook that Plato's political thinking of a failed development is well. Nevertheless, it is fixed to provide that his entire political theory to a crucial point is concentric: The tension between the rule of law on the one hand and the reign of a wise expert on the other side. This means that politics always ask from the standpoint of the rulers of view and not from of the ruled. This raises the question of whether the laws are the best instrument to a state to provide its citizens a good life to be moral, or whether it makes more sense as it is imperfect and application of the law to avoid a mechanical, in which the community is building on a sage who through his skilled and flexible insight to each individual situation but authoritative, but yet sensitive is may hen. In the early Socratic dialogues with Citro, both ideas are seen, but one must be able to provide that the tension between them is still unresolved. Respect for the auto-priorities reflected most probably in the Crito. Below is the view of this voltage can be addressed, which conflict with Socrates-Crito arguments for an escape from the prison of the condemned man discloses, here are the argument of the Socrates and Citro revealing law itself. However, in this study why the wise guy has not accepted the offer of his disciple would be scrutinize. Following are the three premises that Socrates has presented to refuse to escape from the prison.

Premise One

The one premise of the Socrates for rejecting the offer of his disciple Citro to escape from the prison is, Socrates consider escaping from the prison as proving him as guilty before the people as he had mentioned in ...