This week was not so good

So this week I have been very under the weather, so I was not able to get all of the readings done. I read monday's reading, "Crito" by Plato. I liked these two chapters that we read, for the most part. I can understand both sides of Crito and Socrates' argument.

Crito wants Socrates out of jail. He lists several reasons to back up his side of the argument. He is scared about his own reputation, and thinks that if he doesn't bail Socrates out of jail, he will be considered a bad person. He also says that he can make sure Socrates is comfortable in exile, no matter what his needs are. He tries to argue that if Socrates stays in jail, he is actually harming himself and aiding the state in injustice. His very last plead to Socrates used his family abandonment to try and persuade Socrates to escape.

Of course Socrates does what he always did in the marketplace. He proved to Crito why he could not escape using logic. Even if the state is being unjust, if he escaped, he would be unjust as well. He also would be considered a hypocrite, becase he could not be a philosoper if he did not stick to his word.

I feel bad for Socrates, because he knows he is right. He knows he has done nothing wrong. And he also knows that if he "did the right thing" and escaped, he would actually be technically doing "the wrong thing." I don't think I could be friends with somebody like this, mainly because I sometimes get upset when I am wrong, and to have somebody sit there and explain, and make me see exactly why I am wrong, and why the other thing is right would drive me crazy. I would never condemn a person for that, but I would probably tell them to shut up and then walk far away from them.

I am hoping that I can get caught back up this week, and get all of my readings done as well.