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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - If he does not escape, many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 2 } - Suicide is always wrong.
{ 3 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 4 } - It is unnecessary to bribe the guards.
{ 5 } - Socrates is abandoning his wife by dying.
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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - If he does not escape, many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 2 } - Suicide is always wrong.
{ 3 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 4 } - It is unnecessary to bribe the guards.
{ 5 } - Socrates is abandoning his wife by dying.
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 give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - If he does not escape, many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 2 } - Suicide is always wrong.
{ 3 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 4 } - It is unnecessary to bribe the guards.
{ 5 } - Socrates is abandoning his wife by dying.
This is Socrates' position in the Phaedo. See 62a and following: "And it may well astonish you if this subject, alone of all things, is simple, and it is never, as with everything else, better at certain times and for certain people to die than to live. Snd if this is so, you may well find it astonishing that those for whom it is better to die are wrong to help themselves, and that they must wait for someone else to benefit them."
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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - If he does not escape, many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 2 } - Suicide is always wrong.
{ 3 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 4 } - It is unnecessary to bribe the guards.
{ 5 } - Socrates is abandoning his wife by dying.
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 give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - If he does not escape, many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 2 } - Suicide is always wrong.
{ 3 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 4 } - It is unnecessary to bribe the guards.
{ 5 } - Socrates is abandoning his wife by dying.
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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Which of the following reasons for escaping from prison does Crito give to Socrates:
{ 1 } - If he does not escape, many people will think Crito valued money more than a friend.
{ 2 } - Suicide is always wrong.
{ 3 } - Socrates is abandoning god's service by dying.
{ 4 } - It is unnecessary to bribe the guards.
{ 5 } - Socrates is abandoning his wife by dying.
The text makes this argument about his sons, not his wife. 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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