PHL105Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Natural Justice, Civil Disobedience
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Maybe, if you can get away with it. Context: socrates is in prison, crito wants to help him escape. Reputation: socrates doesn"t worry about what the many ay and think about him. He denies that the many can have any real impact on him, in a good or bad way: socrates wants to live his life on his own terms. To him, living well is living a just life. He doesn"t want to live in a corrupt, wretched soul (which is what he will have if he acts unjustly) Would it be just to escape? (through a bribe: socrates has agreed to obey the law. He imagines the law speaking to him effectively personifying the side opposing him (located on 50ab) The law however says something rather dramatic. One can try to persuade the law: by appealing to what is naturally just. That which is fundamentally just: justice isn"t always just.
