QUINTON EMBREY PHILOSOPHY

During Socrates’ death sentence in prison, Critos’ had a few reasons in explaining to Socrates’ to escape from prison. The first reason, Critos’ gave Socrates’ was to think of his children that he still had a responsibility to raise. In which, Socrates’ was leaving behind an oldest who was a young man, a middle child who was a little boy, and the youngest child who was still a baby at the time. Looking threw, Critos’ point of view of this situation, I believe that would be a good idea, if Socrates’ didn’t have a family to leave behind in shame for his, in other people eyes, a cowardly move/mistake.

In response from a Socrates’ being calm and cheerful, reason was that was just popular opinion, which I believe means that would be the best decision if Socrates’ wanted to escape death and be exiled from Athens all together. And then said “My escape would not help my children”, by which at that time period in human history, if Socrates’ was to escape from prison and was to never return to Athens. His children would go through life being called names, their father would be called names, they would go