Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right (Crito by Plato)

It is clear in “Crito” that Plato is holding Socrates up on a pedestal. There is a reason that Plato does this. He is trying to teach the reader a lesson on human values, with Socrates as the epitome of a model citizen. The question of what Plato is trying to teach is where I will begin my inquiry. What truth about life does Plato want his audience to discover, and how does he go …

…can now assume that Plato’s main intent in writing “Crito” is to teach something so we can all have in ourselves a part Socrates, who is in this case the model citizen that we should follow. The lesson learned is that honor is more important than any other human value, including love. We must never fall victim to hypocrisy, as Socrates would have done had he committed a wrong in retaliation for another wrong.