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The Laws do NOT claim:
{ 1 } - Neither Socrates nor his friends will think he did the right thing by escaping from prison.
{ 2 } - Socrates should value nothing more than goodness.
{ 3 } - Socrates has been wronged, not by the Laws, but by men.
{ 4 } - If he escapes from prison the laws of the next world will not receive him kindly.
{ 5 } - By breaking his agreement with the Laws he would be injuring only them and his country.
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The Laws do NOT claim:
{ 1 } - Neither Socrates nor his friends will think he did the right thing by escaping from prison.
{ 2 } - Socrates should value nothing more than goodness.
{ 3 } - Socrates has been wronged, not by the Laws, but by men.
{ 4 } - If he escapes from prison the laws of the next world will not receive him kindly.
{ 5 } - By breaking his agreement with the Laws he would be injuring only them and his country.
See 54b: "If you do this deed, you will not think it better or mor just or more pious here, nor will any one of your friends,..."
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The Laws do NOT claim:
{ 1 } - Neither Socrates nor his friends will think he did the right thing by escaping from prison.
{ 2 } - Socrates should value nothing more than goodness.
{ 3 } - Socrates has been wronged, not by the Laws, but by men.
{ 4 } - If he escapes from prison the laws of the next world will not receive him kindly.
{ 5 } - By breaking his agreement with the Laws he would be injuring only them and his country.
See 54b: "Do not value either your children or your life or anything else more than goodness,..."
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The Laws do NOT claim:
{ 1 } - Neither Socrates nor his friends will think he did the right thing by escaping from prison.
{ 2 } - Socrates should value nothing more than goodness.
{ 3 } - Socrates has been wronged, not by the Laws, but by men.
{ 4 } - If he escapes from prison the laws of the next world will not receive him kindly.
{ 5 } - By breaking his agreement with the Laws he would be injuring only them and his country.
See 54b-c: "As it is, you depart, if you depart, after being wronged not by us, the laws, but by men;"
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The Laws do NOT claim:
{ 1 } - Neither Socrates nor his friends will think he did the right thing by escaping from prison.
{ 2 } - Socrates should value nothing more than goodness.
{ 3 } - Socrates has been wronged, not by the Laws, but by men.
{ 4 } - If he escapes from prison the laws of the next world will not receive him kindly.
{ 5 } - By breaking his agreement with the Laws he would be injuring only them and his country.
See 54c: "our brothers, the laws of the underworld, will not receive you kindly, knowing that you tried to destroy us as far as you could."
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The Laws do NOT claim:
{ 1 } - Neither Socrates nor his friends will think he did the right thing by escaping from prison.
{ 2 } - Socrates should value nothing more than goodness.
{ 3 } - Socrates has been wronged, not by the Laws, but by men.
{ 4 } - If he escapes from prison the laws of the next world will not receive him kindly.
{ 5 } - By breaking his agreement with the Laws he would be injuring only them and his country.
They repeat the Socratic position that all evil harms the evildoer. See 54c: "after breaking your agreement and contract with us, after injuring those you should injure least -- yourself, your friends, your country and us..."
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