ents nurture and educate in order to develop you as a person. In comparison the city does the same. The city nurtures each citizen by giving him or her opportunities and freedoms. You do not go or speak against the country just as you would not speak or act against your mother or father. This applies in the same way according to Socrates. One quote in particular is very strong and important. Socrates says “It is impious to bring violence to bear against your mother or father, it is much more so to use it against your country”(p. 53). This quote itself sums up Socrates’s argument completely. If you know that it is impious to go against your mother and father it is even worse to do it to the country. Socrates’s action on trying to spread “God’s” word falls under the category of being impious to his country and that is why they planned to kill him. This is why he feels it is his obligation to accept the sentence in which Athens has bestowed to him. Socrates says the city of Athens would say because he chose to live in Athens for seventy years that he must abide to their sanctions and that he had plenty of opportunities to leave and go somewhere else. Socrates tells Crito because of living in Athens on his own will, then he has no choice but to follow what they say. The interesting thing is in the “Apology”, he tells the jury “I am convinced that I never willingly wrong [ed] anyone.”(p. 40). This is what gets people to say that he contradicts himself and I can see this as well. If in Socrates’s eyes he never felt like he did harm or broke any laws, but was just doing God’s work, then he should have nothing to worry about and should have escaped with Crito. If he feels that strongly about it, he should have taken off. Socrates talks about the possibility of exile and says, “I should have to be in ordinately find of life, gentlemen of the jury...
