Socrates And Maintaining A Harmony What Is Right And Expression Of Opinions

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one should choose the path a good and
courageous man would choose, particularly when one claims throughout one's life
to care for virtue.@(Crito p.59d) Through the dialogue the questions and
answers within Socrates and Crito establish to major themes in which hold true
throughout the work. The first being that a person must decide whether the
society in which one lives has a just reasoning behind it's own standards of
right and wrong. The second being, that a person must have pride in the life
that he or she leads. In establishing basic questions of these two concepts,
Socrates has precluded his own circumstance and attempted to prove to his
companion Crito, that the choice that he has made is just. AI am the kind of
man who listens only to the argument that on reflection seems best to me. I
cannot, now that this fate has come upon me, discard the arguments I used; they
seen to me much the same.@(Crito p.59b) The introduction of this work has
also provided the concept ...

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governing agents
are not thoroughly respected as just and cohesive parts of society, the very
structure by which the society stands is subject to collapse. If a person is
found to be in violation of what his or her society stands for and does not
accept the consequences for his or her actions, then there can not be a system
of law in place to create order. A You must either persuade it or obey its
orders, and endure in silence whatever it instructs you to endure, whether
blows or bonds, and if it leads you into war or be wounded or killed you must
obey.@(Crito p.63b) The society in which a person lives creates a mutual
relationship in which every person in that society is indebted to, ...

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