Socrates", Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X's Positions on Law After reading Plato's Crito, Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail", and Malcolm X's "The Bullet or the Ballot", it is clear that all three of ... law. However, it is also clear that Socrates had a contrasting different view on a citizen's obligation to obey the law. The Crito is a dialogue, written by Plato, that takes place in Socrates" prison cell where he awaits execution. In this dialogue, Socrates" good friend, Crito, presents several arguments in which he tries to convince Socrates ... to escape death and fle...

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In Plato's Crito, Socrates has been sentenced to death by the court of Athens and is being held until his execution. The Crito is the recorded account of the conversation between Socrates ... that the laws could have been set up by an evil dictator or an unjust government. For example, in the case of the Dread Scott Decision in U.S. history, it stated unjustly that African American slaves were considered property of their white owners. While today we know this to be unjust, but according to premise two, because of its validity as an ... ...

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... (or called) right. (The argument of "might is right" is in the Republic, with Thrasymachus as the Sophist arguing with Socrates.) Reacting against the Sophists' teachings, Socrates (or more accurately, Plato in the Republic) preached an absolutist view, saying that what is right is not necessarily enforced by the State. Rather, there is a permanent, absolute, and unchanging reality (the world of ... view. What Socrates argued near the end of his life is that the dictates of the State, or Laws, must be adhered to (even if the Laws were wrong in unjustly putting such a philosopher to deat...

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