1. Why did Socrates not flee the sentence of the court?
First of all Socrates says that, you must not do wrong to anyone or anything, doesn’t
matter if they did wrong to you and you are answering back. As saying that he didn’t do anything
bad to the country or nation but the judges are to doing him. So even though it’s unfair and the
law is doing badly on him (as seen by Crito) he shall not answer back with disrespect by
escaping because it would mean to do something wrong.
By saying doing wrong It means that: It would have many moral complications, and would be a
really big unmoral act; it would show disrespect to the place where he was born and his family
decided to breed him. It would be the breaking of an agreement he did by living there and
accepting the norms (laws). So, by escaping he will be breaking the laws of where he grew, and
educated him, making the man he became.
To explain all these he uses a metaphor, that if you believe in someone (your master: doctor or
trainer) you must follow him and his teachings because he knows more than you, so if you
disagree with him there is a reason that you ignore, but if you disobey you shall be punished with
harm. Also I think this metaphor can be seen like Socrates saying to Crito and his followers to let
him die in peace and do not worry because he know what he is doing, so if they try to hold back
they are going to be more harmed as if they see it as a choice for something better.
He had an opportunity to be freed if he apologized to the court, however he refused, and if he
escaped after refusing, it would be seen as that he didn’t apologize, not because he thought that
what he did wasn’t wrong and was something that he didn’t have to apologize, but because of
pride and will also be considered as a taunt to his country or nation that made him.

2. If he would have fled even though he kept his life going somewhere else, he would always be the
man that escaped and broke the law and couldn’t do his consequences.
On the reading says that he would feel ashamed to be seen as the man who escaped and
broke the law. It makes me think that he was a good person with an impeccable historial of
being a good human being so he didn’t wanted us to see him as a man that is going to break rules
and lots of time , however; he also says that we shouldn’t take the opinion of the people that
doesn’t know, and those that doesn’t know would be people that would look at him bad because
he is the man that fled. And the one that know, the ones that their opinion should be taken would
know that it was a better option, thus, he could keep teaching and spreading knowledge all over
there.
I think Socrates had vanity in the way that he was becoming old and losing faculties, he
mentioned that: “isn’t worth living in a body with bad condition and corrupted.” I think he was
just looking for reasons for not escaping and how he was going to convince his friends that it was
better if he died.
In the reading was mentioned many times that the friends that would help Socrates to scape
would have massive losses on properties and stuff, and is still mentioned that they knew it and
they approved it as long as Socrates was still alive, and also Crito says that those losses aren’t
that bad or big.
I think that many things that he said doesn’t go fluently, however, I don’t know much of him, but
this is saying of what I have read, which is only this paper.