Socrates continues the speech of the Laws of Athens by appealing to a kind of social contract that exists between the Laws and the citizens. The Laws, as Socrates already suggested, have given him birth, have raised him and educated him, and have shared the wealth of Athens with him and his fellow citizens.

Socrates explains to Crito that they will use reason to decide what is the best choice. The laws, according to socrates maintains that socrates would be going against his agreement with the state if he escapes. Socrates has received many advantages from the state.

Socrates wanted Athens to be a perfect state. He told Athenians that this could only happen if every citizen educated his mind to see what was right and noble.

One of Crito’s strongest arguments in favor of escape comes at 45c, where Crito suggests that Socrates would be abetting the wrong-doing of his enemies in following through with their wishes. Socrates’ reply to this argument is that he would in fact be harming the Laws, which are just.

He is not afraid of death, which may in fact be ‘good’. —Socrates rejects imprisonment or a fine (which he could not pay, because of his poverty); he cannot suggest exile , since he would be as dangerous in another city as he is in Athens. to Apollo.

Socrates defines death as separation of the soul and body. Explain Socrates’ argument that the true philosopher is willing to die based on that philosopher’s understanding of the relationship between body and soul. A true philosopher is wiling to die because they do not care for the pleasures of the body.

Socrates responds: For to fear death, gentlemen, is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. For no one knows whether death might not be the greatest of all goods for a human being, but people fear it as if they knew well that it is the greatest of evils.

He says that he should be put to death because he does not fear death, because fearing death would be claiming to know what occurs in the afterlife. Near the end of Apology, Socrates argues that death is probably a blessing.

Socrates insisted that for a moral person, death was a good thing and should be welcomed. Suicide was wrong, he added, because men and women are the property of the immortal gods, and as such should not be harmed intentionally because this was an attack on the property of others.

Putting an innocent man to death is far worse, and thus far more to be feared, than dying oneself, according to Socrates, and so really it is the jury, and not Socrates himself, that is in grave danger. In doing what he does, Socrates claims he is doing Athens a great favor, and he will not be easy to replace.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know.

Meaning of – An unexamined life is not worth living. Through this statement, Socrates means that an unexamined human life is deprived of the meaning and purpose of existence. To become fully human means to use our highly developed faculty of thought to raise our existence above that of mere beasts.

Socrates believed that living a life where you live under the rules of others, in a continuous routine without examining what you actually want out of it is not worth living. Hence Socrates’ renowned statement “The unexamined life is not worth living”.

“The unexamined life is not worth living” (Ancient Greek: ὁ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ) is a famous dictum apparently uttered by Socrates at his trial for impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death, as described in Plato’s Apology (38a5–6).