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Concerning his children, the Laws suggest to Socrates that:
{ 1 } - The state will take care of them.
{ 2 } - One should either not have children or do anything to survive to educate them.
{ 3 } - His wife will educate them.
{ 4 } - God will take care of them.
{ 5 } - They will be just as well cared for by his friends if he is dead as if he were absent.
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Concerning his children, the Laws suggest to Socrates that:
{ 1 } - The state will take care of them.
{ 2 } - One should either not have children or do anything to survive to educate them.
{ 3 } - His wife will educate them.
{ 4 } - God will take care of them.
{ 5 } - They will be just as well cared for by his friends if he is dead as if he were absent.
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Concerning his children, the Laws suggest to Socrates that:
{ 1 } - The state will take care of them.
{ 2 } - One should either not have children or do anything to survive to educate them.
{ 3 } - His wife will educate them.
{ 4 } - God will take care of them.
{ 5 } - They will be just as well cared for by his friends if he is dead as if he were absent.
This is Crito's position. See 45c-d: "I think you are betraying your sons by going away and leaving them, when you could bring them up and educate them. You thus show no concern for what their fate may be. Either one should not have children, or one should share with them to the end the toil of upbringing and education."
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Concerning his children, the Laws suggest to Socrates that:
{ 1 } - The state will take care of them.
{ 2 } - One should either not have children or do anything to survive to educate them.
{ 3 } - His wife will educate them.
{ 4 } - God will take care of them.
{ 5 } - They will be just as well cared for by his friends if he is dead as if he were absent.
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Concerning his children, the Laws suggest to Socrates that:
{ 1 } - The state will take care of them.
{ 2 } - One should either not have children or do anything to survive to educate them.
{ 3 } - His wife will educate them.
{ 4 } - God will take care of them.
{ 5 } - They will be just as well cared for by his friends if he is dead as if he were absent.
The text does not say this.
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Concerning his children, the Laws suggest to Socrates that:
{ 1 } - The state will take care of them.
{ 2 } - One should either not have children or do anything to survive to educate them.
{ 3 } - His wife will educate them.
{ 4 } - God will take care of them.
{ 5 } - They will be just as well cared for by his friends if he is dead as if he were absent.
See 54a-b: "You say you want to live for the sake of your children, that you may bring them up and educate them. How so? Will you bring them up and educate them by taking them to Thessaly and making strangers of them, that they may enjoy that too? Or not so, but they will be better brought up and educated here, while you are alive, though absent? Yes, your friends will look after them. Will they look after them if you go and live in Thessaly, but not if you go away to the underworld? If those who profess themselves your friends are any good at all, one must assume that they will.
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