Heidegger

—– Original Message —–
From: “bob scheetz”

> —– Original Message —–
> From: “Anthony Crifasi”
>>
>> Socrates’ sentence wasn’t self-imposed - the fact that it was by his own
>> hand was accidental, since he explicitly gave his own position on the
>> subject (according to Plato, at least) during the very time he was
>> waiting
>> to die:
>>
>> “Then he, or any man who has the spirit of philosophy, will be willing to
>> die, but he will not take his own life, for that is held to be unlawful.”
>> (Phaedo 61c)
>>
>> and:
>>
>> “it should not be right for those to whom death would be an advantage to
>> benefit themselves” (Phaedo 62a)
>
> It was self-imposed, …in the same place (Phaedo) he’s offered exile and
> refuses.

I think that’s in the Crito - if I remember, he says that to do that would
be to return wrong for wrong, and so refuses; not the same as actually
taking your own life, and in light of the two above quotes, he (or at least
Plato) obviously agrees with that distinction.

Posted on Sunday, July 30th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
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