Assata vs Socrates The fight for justice continues, as we distinguish two different scenarios and compare and contrast them to each other. Assata Shakur and Socrates were one and the same. They both were opposed by the government, convicted to long-term prison sentences, and received neglect that posed a threat to their humanity. These two individual not only showed courage, but also they showed that they stood for something one-hundred percent and backed up everything they stood for. Both Assata Shakur and Socrates received tremendous love and hatred from their community. With This essay I will give information about each individual, compare and contrast those two individuals, and choose which path I would have taken. Putting myself in the …show more content…
Staring with Assata Shakur, who is a very smart and courageous woman. Being a part of Black Panther Party group and standing for equal rights retaliating with the same force the oppressive system gave. Assata unknowingly joined the Black Liberation Group in hopes of change for black Americans, but instead received tremendous amount of hate from the white society. Being targeted by the FBI and a secret counterintelligence agency called CoIntelPro. After the infamous 1973 shootout in New Jersey where she was shot twice and captured, Assata tried reasoning with the officials but they wouldn’t budge. This group attacked them with false documents, kidnapping, robbing, aiding and embedding, lynching, and even deaths of African Americans for years. When Assata had the chance to escape prison she took it with no hesitation. With all the piled up charges put on Assata and other …show more content…
He had nothing to rebel against other than the people who he felt were not as smart as they say there are. Socrates’ friends were trying to persuade Socrates to leave and stop from having to be killed. Socrates doesn't want to leave as it will disdain his name, and he would be performing evil for evil. Socrates reasons for not going leaving the community are solely based on his principles and respect for his government. Trying to convince Socrates from staying we meet Crito. Crito is supposedly a friend to Socrates but his words and actions does not speak the same intentions. He tells Socrates that if he will not leave and escape prison, that everyone would think that he didn’t care about his friend well enough to help him. Socrates is not concerned about the opinion of the majority, for it is capable of neither the greatest evil nor the greatest good. Crito then questioned Socrates on many different things and also degraded his name and manhood. Some of the concerns listed by Crito regarded Socrates’ kids, the fact that his friends may be excluded from the Community, and playing into the hands of his enemies and giving aid to the ones who are disregarding the demands of justice. Socrates responds to this and admits that his exuberance is invaluable if it is used in support of what is right, but if used in support of what is wrong it leads to an even greater evil. He showed
INTRODUCTION On Saturday, August 9, 1997, nearly twenty (20) years ago, Haitian immigrant Abner Louima made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. When he left his apartment in the East-Flatbush section of Brooklyn, accompanied by his younger brother and an older cousin, he had no idea that his life would be forever changed. He would become victim to an unspeakable, grotesque, dreadful and inhumane act of violence that would not only shock the conscience of the world community but would forever leave him with the stigma of having been the victim of the worst crime in the history of police brutality in New York City. Abner Louima was born in Haiti. He immigrated to the United States.
Crito was afraid because his friend Socrates was willing to be executed; Crito made haste to explain that he can and must help Socrates to escape. All it would take is a few appropriate bribes to the guards and anyone who was willing to provide meaningful information, which would not be at all difficult to take care of. Crito further explains that if Socrates does not escape, no one would believe that he had willingly faced execution. Instead, Crito would be accused of not helping Socrates, He would rather be accused of being materialistic. Socrates suggests that one should only be cautious of the opinions of sensible people who will see things exactly as they turned out.
After being convicted in Athens of corrupting the youth and not believing in the Gods, Socrates was sentenced to death. Crito, a friend of Socrates comes to him while he is awaiting his punishment. Crito tries to convince Socrates to escape to another city, but Socrates chooses to stay and face his punishment in Athens after taking a look at the reasons to escape and the reasons to stay. Philosophical and personal issues were also contemplated by Socrates while making his decision. Socrates allows Crito to make his arguments, then Socrates makes his; after Crito fails to convince Socrates to escape, Socrates chooses to stay.
Within this essay I will be anylyzing the Crito in Plato’s five dialogues. In this portion of the book, Socrates has been confined in a prison due to his misfortunate trail, where he was unjustly accused of corrupting the youth, and failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges. Here he waits for his execution, and contemplates escaping prison to save his own life with Crito. Crito, who is a dear friend and follower of Socrates teachings, attempts to sway Socrates away from his decision of accepting his fate. By the end of this conversation Socrates decides to stay on the path God has laid out for him, and go through with his execution.
In Plato’s Crito, Crito goes to Socrates cell while he is sleeping and tries to convenience him to escape. Crito gives Socrates six reasons why Socrates should not just allow the execution to take place. First, Crito states that why should he die when he could escape and live a long life. Next, by allowing this, he is betraying his family. In addition, he states a good man would not allow himself to be executed without a fight or attempt to save himself.
Crito accepts his arguments and Socrates decides he is going to
Argument 1 and 3 Crito gives Socrates are about Socrates hurting him, by losing a good friend and he’ll have bad reputation. He’ll receive bad reputation
To summarize this article, Tawana Brawley was an innocent 15-year-old girl that viciously been gang raped by six man one described as a cop. Her fragile body was found smeared with manure. Tawana later became a symbol, representing the unequal Justice for African Americans. Her story received many attention and was given lifelong donations that would benefit her in the future, but justice was never fought for this blameless girl. Nevertheless, When Rev. Al Sharpton, Alton Maddox Jr., and C. Vernon Mason took on her case that would be the beginning of the end to finding justice for Tawana.
Assata Shakur represents a woman who is complete. She demonstrates a woman of integrity, a woman who is a leader and does not follow. Joy James makes a great point; “Shakur is singular because she is a recognizable female’s revolutionary, one bound to a make persona (p.138).” James also added “Along with Harriet Tubman, Shakur would become one of the black female figures in the United States recognized as a leader in an organization that publicly advocated armed self-defense against racist violence (p.139).” Assata is a complete woman.
The version of Socrates presented in both The Apology, Crito, and The Republic could very well be two different versions of Socrates as presented by Plato. However, both versions of Socrates have one thing in common: they both value the importance of philosophy and they both defend philosophy as something that is important to humanity. The Apology is Socrates defending not only himself, but also philosophy as an area of study that could be useful to the city of Athens. Socrates is trying to defend himself and his study and he tries to distance himself from the sophists in that they charge for money.
Did you know that the black panther member Assata Shakur was rapper/ poet Tupac Shakur’s godmother? Queens, New Yorker JoAnne Deborah Byron aka Assata Shakur, was an activist and a nationalist. At age 17, Shakur dropped out of high school and attended city college of New York and Manhattan Community College. As a student activist Assata participated in many protests and strikes. It was a little later in life when Assata Shakur changed her name meaning “she who struggles” and “the thankful”.
Crito and others have the money to bribe the informers and wants Socrates to let go of his fears if he has any because it is well worth the risk. (Crito,45a.) Crito believes he will be welcome in cities such as Thessaly where he has friends that
To be just or to be served an injustice and obey, this is the very basis of the philosophical dialogue between Socrates and Crito. The Crito begins as one of Socrates’ wealthy friends, Crito, offers Socrates a path to freedom—to escape from Athens. Through the ensuing dialogue, Socrates examines, as a man who is bound by principles of justice, whether an unjust verdict should be responded to with injustice. In the dialogue between Socrates and Crito, Socrates outlines his main arguments and principles that prevent him from escaping under such circumstances. Socrates is under guard when Crito visits him, thus the plan to escape.
Making enemies and becoming the topic of conversation, the Athenians began to view Socrates as a threat to their beliefs and way of life and sought to end it. In order to end this, Socrates was accused of blasphemy (Mod1SlideC7). Socrates’s accusers took him to court and after Socrates did not play their game by asking to be sent into exile, and in the end, he was sentenced to death. After reading the textbook and Plato’s writing influenced by Socrates, I realized that in the period of his life Socrates was indeed truly a threat to the Athens society, because he looked for answers that no one else bothered to find which challenged their culture.
His journey for more truth and wisdom through conversation exposed the ignorance of some presumably wise citizens and also earned him a bad reputation. As the story begins, Socrates is visited very early and unexpectedly by his old friend named Crito, who has made arrangements to rescue Socrates before his tragic death takes place. Socrates seems very content with his trial to be executed. Crito is not happy, and argues with Socrates. He has many compelling arguments