PrescriptivePolitical & legal Question
Persuade or obey
On the axis: Law and conscience · the debt owed to the laws
Condemned unjustly, Socrates refuses to escape: the Laws raised him, he accepted their benefits his whole life, and he may persuade them but not betray them. Does the injustice of a verdict permit breaking with what made us?
Condemned to death by an Athenian court, Socrates waits in prison. Crito has arranged his escape: the guards are bribed, a refuge awaits. Socrates refuses.
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