Description In the dialogue Plate’s Crito, Socrates' age old friend Crito visits him before the day of Socrates' execution. He has come with an escape plan and tries to convince Socrates to flee from Athens and save his life. The escape plan has already been set, the guards have been paid, and the escape would not be difficult with the help of Socrates friends. The only thing that remain is the consent of the sage, Socrates, and to seek that Crito has come. Crito laments that people would accuse him and other friends of Socrates that they had done nothing to save their friend. Crito put forward the argument that if Socrates let his executors execute him he would, in fact, be aiding them in the act of injustice. Secondly, Crito says that Socrates is doing wrong in leaving his children without a father …show more content…
Socrates refuses to choose escape over death and put forward his views in the form of a dialogue with Crito. Socrates argued that should the principles of right and wrong be altered because of the situation of Socrates? Is his escape consistent of the maintenance of the laws? Personifying the Laws, he explains that if the laws of Athens come to him and ask him why he has not observed them in this hour while he has given his consent for observing them by living under these laws for seventy years, how would he respond to them? Socrates contend that if he choose to break the laws of Athens that would make him the enemy of every law in the world and to him, it is his test that whether he prefers his life and children or he prefers justice. Thus, Socrates decides that it is his duty to follow the laws till his last and in farsightedness this is the right and more prudent course of action. So, he convinced his friend to desert