Crito's View Of Socrates Opinion Of Wise People

Crito started his argument with effects of Socrates death on him and what would people think about Crito with letting his friend to die without helping him. As before, Socrates tried to examine if the opinion of the majority of people is important or not. Socrates stated that he should value the ideas from wise people and he disregard ideas from unwise people (66). He disregarded how many wise people are in the city or how many unwise people are there. So, the quantity of wise people was not an important aspect in the eyes of Socrates. Then, Socrates proved this idea by a question: “Come, then, what of such questions as this? When a man’s primarily engaged in physical training, does he pay attention to the praise or blame or opinion of every man or only to those of the one man who’s a doctor or a trainer.” (66).
By starting this question, Socrates easily proved that the person whose primary intention is physical training should only care about opinion of who are doctor or trainer and not the opinion of the majority of the
people. Opinion of the majority of people would not affect him. This idea is the same for people whose intention is to be just like Socrates. So they should only care about opinion of just people and not the majority. Socrates Said: “Then, my dear friend, we should not give so much thought to what the majority of people will say about us, but think instead of what the person who understands just and unjust things will say – the one man and the truth itself.” (67). By this point, Socrates rejected the first argument with convincing Crito that opinion of the majority is not important.