Plato’s Crito is a short and dramatic dialogue. It starts out with just two interlocutors, Socrates and the Crito who the dialogue is named after. Socrates’ execution had been postponed due to a religious ritual, but now is slated to happen, and Crito has bribed the guards in preparation for spiriting Socrates away to a different Greek city. And then Socrates says: let’s think this through. . . .
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