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Crito By Plato Plato's Crito takes place after Socrates is condemned to death and sitting in his jail cell. Crito is Socrates' good friend and has come to visit Socrates in the hopes of convincing his old friend to escape. But Socrates logically refutes Crito's argument. Crito begins his argument by bringing bad news to Socrates, relating to him that the ship from Delos is approaching and, with it, the hour of his mandated death. …

…the public opinions are if they had no expert knowledge of judicial or moral law. This is the kind of thinking that makes Socrates easy to relate with. He has a gift in which he takes a situation and analogizes it with every day occurrences to make it easier to make a well thought out decision. This method helps Socrates open Crito's mind to instructive discourse, which eventually proves Socrates' logic over Crito's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**