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To what extend might Plato's ideas be described as totalitarian? Argue for your view with specific reference to "Crito".
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... Telemez 1 Özkan Bugra Telemez 20300347 IR 82241 Sec.09 Tuba Küsmenoglu Deadline: 10th November 2004 ESSAY QUESTION: To what extend might Plato's ideas be described as totalitarian? Argue for your view with specific reference to "Crito". Plato's "Crito" describes Socrates, an Athenian philosopher who chooses to die for an ideal. In the text, Socrates is condemnded to death and sitting in jail. A this time Socrates has many followers who hope he will agree to escape. When Crito, a friend of Socrates comes to take on this position, Socrates refuses to his arguement. The ideas of Socrates can be thought as totalitarian referred to the text, "Crito". To this end, I will prove that ideas taken place in "Crito" by Socrates is totally totalitarian by giving a brief information of totalitarianism and how it applied to the excerpts from Plato's "Crito". Totalitarianism is a modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets














