Justice And Injustice: Annotated In Crito

In Crito, Socrates shows the importance of justice, as his life’s mission is to do just actions that do no harm one’s soul. In this short dialogue, Crito presents three arguments on why Socrates should escape. His first argument states that if Socrates would not leave Athens, it will affect his reputation: “On the contrary, not only I will lose a friend the like of whom I’ll never find again, but, in addition, many people, who don’t know you or me well, will think that I didn’t care about you, since I could have saved you if I’d been willing to spend the money” (Crito, 44c). Later on, Socrates will easily show the weakness of this argument as Crito only focuses on the negative consequences that Socrates’s actions will have on Crito.
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