Impolitic very good citizen: Socrates

About the philosophy and the figure of Socrates(b.Ch.469-399) very much has been written and said, but a particular is always ignored, also because nothing testimony has said something about this particular side of Socrates, this is the his ideology or his political preference; in fact we haven’t nothing reference regard the Socratic ideology; the ancient books that has used Socrates, as the Republic of Plato, and the biography of Xenophanes(b.Ch. 430-355), has said about it something; evidently he haven’t ideology, and he respected alone the laws, as he said in the Crito, a pupil of Socrates that has offered to Socrates the possibility of to escape from the prison, because he would corrupt the guards, but Socrates refused it and he spoke to Crito about the valor of laws: “Socrates asked two things: the first is that Crito is convinced that the wreck never we must make, neither fo0r the revenge, and the second is if is licit don’t respect the faith of somebody after a right accord…Socrates goes toward the last side of dialogue and he made a personification of laws. The respect of Socrates was both for the Athens laws and for the divine laws, a step aids us, a religious particular, during the holiday of Delo was forbidden the capital condemn, hence the condemn of Socrates occurred 30 days after the sentence  Crito informs Socrates that the sheep from Delo will arrived in that same day, and Crito said: “hence Socrates you are going to quit the life”, and Socrates responds: “With good lucky, Crito! If it is the will, it must be so”; furthermore Socrates shows his adherence to laws of Athens in this long step, where he personalized the laws: “And if the laws asked me: “But Socrates, it was the pact that we have stipulated, or instead that you must obey to judges of the city?...What do you reproach to us and to the city? The first your father and your mother have married and you are born? Say to us, that regularize the marries, do you have some reproach to us because they aren’t good?”, and the concept is repeated over: “…You are violating the pacts and the accords that you have made to us, and made not because you are compelled or through deception…but during seventh years you could gone away, if we dislike to you? You contrary hasn’t preferred neither Lacedaemon and Crete, whose you lode for every occasion the laws and order, and neither other cities…and more than every Athens resident you have loved this city and its laws, because to whom like a city without laws? And now you don’t respect the pacts, you are going to be faithful to pacts, if you follow us…”, and the nature of rightest citizen of Socrates emerges in these following words: “In fact when you have violated your engage and made this guilt, think what good you can make to yourself  and to your friends. They are going to face the risk of exile and deprived of civil rights and deprived of their richness…”; it is the wit of Socrates, that in this context could make egoistically and gone away from Athens, inasmuch save his life; but he thought first don’t betray the laws, and it respect for the city and for the citizens; therefore he was a very good citizen of Athens, but first he was a very good citizen.

Alessandro Lusana