Crito
•Attempt
by Crito to have Socrates (in prison) escape Athens and therefore
save his life
•Conversation regarding justice (dikē),
injustice (adikia), and the appropriate response to
injustice
•Socrates
states that injustice may not be answered with injustice, and refuses
Crito's offer to finance his escape from prison
•This
dialogue contains an ancient statement of the social contract
theory of government
•Socrates takes the opportunity to deliver the message that
the state and the justice of the state is more important than his
life