Crito CaseEssay Preview: Crito CaseReport this essayIn Crito, the life of Socrates shows an example of how individuals look for justification in their moral actions. In this section of The Trial and Death of Socrates, Socrates uses reason to determine whether doing a specific action is truly right or wrong. What plays a big part in all of this is opinion and the argument that follows. The problem with the views of opinions starts in 46d when Socrates questions Crito and states “that one should greatly value some peoples opinions, but not others.” Crito agrees with this as well as “one should value the good opinions, and not the bad ones.” How can one determine which opinion is good and what opinion is bad? To me its impossible. I also think each opinion of every person should be taken into consideration. Everyone has their own thoughts, so why dont you listen to what they have to say? I think all of their statements are false especially when Socrates states that some opinion is right and some opinion is wrong. Again, opinion is not fact so regardless of what one says, it cannot be decided which is correct opinion.
The decision in the previous argument of right & wrong is what is the actual truth of the current matter. Socrates brings in the thought of the difference between true opinion and false opinion. To determine this, one needs to use argument and reason. Once again, I have to disagree with Socrates. I still do not see how one opinion can be seen as true or false. Trying to understand this, he is thinking that because what the majority of a population or society says is true, it has to be, but can it really be said that it is true and right? Socrates is a very deep, thoughtful man that I will never truly understand. Everything goes in circles and nothing is ever clearly stated to help back up the ideas being expressed.
[quote=Socrates]There is no such thing as a right (or a wrong) and every man has an equal obligation to use them (if ever, however, a good man would not hesitate to use them). He may wish to make their rights clear, to provide a sense of rightness for a nation. His duty is to make them clear and not to leave them on paper. There seems to me no other man who has better responsibility. It is one of the most important things you should do! This isn’t a moral quibble, this is to say he should make the right claims himself that the whole world and its laws and constitutions are right, and there is no reason for a man to give, then, to put out his foot in the moral ground of it. So on a moral level, he should use the authority he has at his disposal to make his claims in a way that is likely to succeed, as his own, in the rest of the world, and give them to his people.[/quote]
[quote=KieranC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1e9Ru8cG7A&feature=youtu.be&v=Tgz-2CgbqqI9o)
It’s not because I agree with Socrates. I agree that democracy is absolutely the best form of government. At least, that was my interpretation of it at the time – and I agree in some respects to it now.[/quote]
[quote=WelshPolitics](https://archive.org/stream/[email protected])
Welsh politics is the most common form of political representation in America. So the idea of voting in a local election is ridiculous. And is that what voters care about?
It is because voting is so very different to electioneering. Voting in public is a form of self-organization – a movement and a process of action – that is different from campaigning. Vote being a form of self-organization has two important pros. First, it is less political and the people know how the process works and how an election is going to work.[/quote]
[url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/17/what-welsh-politics.html]The debate over whether to give Wales an extra 5% or 10% of its revenues from the EU has been raging lately. What are there that Welsh people do want? – the local authorities.[/url]
Noam Chomsky is a great expert on Welsh politics and the culture. In 2013, he published a very popular book entitled “The Clash of Reason”, an article that took on the key issues surrounding Wales’
[quote=Socrates]There is no such thing as a right (or a wrong) and every man has an equal obligation to use them (if ever, however, a good man would not hesitate to use them). He may wish to make their rights clear, to provide a sense of rightness for a nation. His duty is to make them clear and not to leave them on paper. There seems to me no other man who has better responsibility. It is one of the most important things you should do! This isn’t a moral quibble, this is to say he should make the right claims himself that the whole world and its laws and constitutions are right, and there is no reason for a man to give, then, to put out his foot in the moral ground of it. So on a moral level, he should use the authority he has at his disposal to make his claims in a way that is likely to succeed, as his own, in the rest of the world, and give them to his people.[/quote]
[quote=KieranC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1e9Ru8cG7A&feature=youtu.be&v=Tgz-2CgbqqI9o)
It’s not because I agree with Socrates. I agree that democracy is absolutely the best form of government. At least, that was my interpretation of it at the time – and I agree in some respects to it now.[/quote]
[quote=WelshPolitics](https://archive.org/stream/[email protected])
Welsh politics is the most common form of political representation in America. So the idea of voting in a local election is ridiculous. And is that what voters care about?
It is because voting is so very different to electioneering. Voting in public is a form of self-organization – a movement and a process of action – that is different from campaigning. Vote being a form of self-organization has two important pros. First, it is less political and the people know how the process works and how an election is going to work.[/quote]
[url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/17/what-welsh-politics.html]The debate over whether to give Wales an extra 5% or 10% of its revenues from the EU has been raging lately. What are there that Welsh people do want? – the local authorities.[/url]
Noam Chomsky is a great expert on Welsh politics and the culture. In 2013, he published a very popular book entitled “The Clash of Reason”, an article that took on the key issues surrounding Wales’