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Socrates' Moral Decision
Title: Socrates' Moral Decision
Category: Social Sciences / Education
Details: Words: 800 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Socrates' Moral Decision
Good, Brief, Humorless Good Points,
Was Socrates wise to stay in Athens to die? Examine firstly the context
of the word wise , Socrates wasn't wise in the sense of preserving his own life
as he stayed to die. He was encouraged and given the chance to escape
by his friend Crito, but Socrates did not want to escape . Why?
Socrates was a wise man. He believed in absolutes, and pursued the
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…showed last 75 words of 800 total…ignore laws applicable to the situation.
Take for example; the person whose father is having a heart attack, or a pregnant
woman going into labor. These people probably wouldn't obey the traffic laws
while rushing to the hospital. Is this justification to break the law? Many people
would say that while it is morally and legally wrong to break any laws; these
situations would be acceptable. Personal judgement would prevail over the
situation at hand.
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