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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito NOT give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 2 } - Socrates is abandoning his sons' education by dying.
{ 3 } - Crito will lose an exceptional friend.
{ 4 } - It is wrong for Socrates to give up his life when he can save it.
{ 5 } - Many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 6 } - Not much money is required to bribe the guards.
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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito NOT give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 2 } - Socrates is abandoning his sons' education by dying.
{ 3 } - Crito will lose an exceptional friend.
{ 4 } - It is wrong for Socrates to give up his life when he can save it.
{ 5 } - Many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 6 } - Not much money is required to bribe the guards.
This is the reason Cebes gives in the Phaedo 62d-e against the wise man accepting death.
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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito NOT give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 2 } - Socrates is abandoning his sons' education by dying.
{ 3 } - Crito will lose an exceptional friend.
{ 4 } - It is wrong for Socrates to give up his life when he can save it.
{ 5 } - Many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 6 } - Not much money is required to bribe the guards.
See 45c-d: Crito: "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."
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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito NOT give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 2 } - Socrates is abandoning his sons' education by dying.
{ 3 } - Crito will lose an exceptional friend.
{ 4 } - It is wrong for Socrates to give up his life when he can save it.
{ 5 } - Many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 6 } - Not much money is required to bribe the guards.
See 44b: Crito: "Not only will I be deprived of a friend, the like of whom I shall never find again..."
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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito NOT give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 2 } - Socrates is abandoning his sons' education by dying.
{ 3 } - Crito will lose an exceptional friend.
{ 4 } - It is wrong for Socrates to give up his life when he can save it.
{ 5 } - Many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 6 } - Not much money is required to bribe the guards.
See 45c: Crito: "Besides Socrates, I do not think that what you are doing is right, to give up your life when you can save it, and to hasten your fate as your enemies would hasten it, and indeed have hastened it in their wish to destroy you."
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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito NOT give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 2 } - Socrates is abandoning his sons' education by dying.
{ 3 } - Crito will lose an exceptional friend.
{ 4 } - It is wrong for Socrates to give up his life when he can save it.
{ 5 } - Many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 6 } - Not much money is required to bribe the guards.
See 44b-c: Crito: "many people who do not know you or me very well will think that I could have saved you if I were willing to spend money, but that I did not care to do so. Surely there can be no worse reputation than to be thought to value money more highly than one's friends, for the majority will not believe that you yourself were not willing to leave prison while we were eager for you to do so."
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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito NOT give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 2 } - Socrates is abandoning his sons' education by dying.
{ 3 } - Crito will lose an exceptional friend.
{ 4 } - It is wrong for Socrates to give up his life when he can save it.
{ 5 } - Many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 6 } - Not much money is required to bribe the guards.
See 45a: Crito: "Further, do you not see that those informers are cheap, and that not much money would be needed to deal with them?"
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