POLS 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Statute

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 250
• Professor: Colin Farrelly

Document Summary

Pols 250 week 3: plato"s apology and crito; rawls. Alleged guilty of impiety and corrupting the young by meletos, anytos, lycon. The apology is his defense (and it is antagonistic) To fear death is to claim to know what it is (no one does). It could be: similar to a good night"s sleep (socrates at peace with this, the afterlife (socrates can talk to other philosophers there so also at peace) Socrates says he would not punish himself. When crito tries to help socrates escape, socrates challenges him and asks what. Here we get the quote: (cid:498)a life unexamined is not worth living. (cid:499) legacy he"d leave if he escaped claiming it would be unjust to escape and this. Socrates argues he has benefitted from the system so would hurt people. Escape is wrong because it breaks a willingly made contract to the law: eg.