Philosophy 101
Study questions:  Plato, Crito


1.  What are the circumstances in which Crito and Socrates meet?  What has Crito come to discuss?

2.  What argument does Crito offer in order to convince Socrates?

3.  Socrates sets out a careful argument in response to Crito's appeal.  How does this argument
        proceed?  What are the main claims that Socrates' depends on to arrive at his conclusion.

4.  What problems might there be for the argument Socrates has set out?  Is it plausible to think
        that we always have an obligation to obey the laws of the state in which we live?  Under
        what circumstances might this not be true?