Socrates

            In Crito's dialogue, we find Socrates in jail waiting for the ship that will eventually sentence him to death. Crito, an old friend of Socrates, is trying to persuade Socrates to escape from prison before is too late. From section 47-A through 48-C, Socrates gives a series of statements of why he thinks he should stay in prison, refusing the chance he had to escape. In the following pages we are going to examine Socrates arguments and whether they are valid for me or not. At the end of the document, I will make a conclusion base on the interpretations that we have from the arguments. .
             Socrates first says, that one must not value all the opinions of all men, but those of some. Evidently, the argument is very clear and strong; we shouldn't take in consideration everyone's opinion about something. Instead, we should listen to those who give good opinions and not bad ones. For example, in Crito's dialogue we see that Crito wants to save Socrates not only because he does not want to lose a friend but because everyone is going to think that Crito didn't save Socrates because he was ambitious and like the money instead of the value of a friend. As we can see, Crito is more concerned about what other people will tend to think about him later, instead of the things he knows that happened for real.
             Socrates then tell us that "The good opinions are those of wise men, [and] the bad ones those of foolish men" (Zeyl 49). The ideas in this argument are very clear. It tell us that they are two classes, the good opinions that are given by the wise men and the bad opinions that are created by foolish men. Not everyone can give us a good opinion, if there is one who has knowledge of these things he is a wise person, but if he doesn't then he is a foolish men. The third statement that Socrates says is "if we do not follow his directions, then we shall harm and corrupt that part of ourselves that is improved by just actions and destroy by unjust actions" (Zeyl 49).