What were your reactions to the Crito reading video? 2.) What are Crito’s four “reasons” for Socrates escaping from jail?

1.) What were your reactions to the Crito reading video?
2.) What are Crito’s four “reasons” for Socrates escaping from jail? Are any of these good “reasons”?
3.) What is Socrates ultimate response to Crito’s plea? Why does he refuse to escape from prison?
4.) Socrates says that part of us that is harmed when we behave unrighteously is the part of us that is improved by justice. What does this mean to you all?
5.) Socrates states that one should never do wrong in return for a wrong received. What does he mean by this? Do you agree?
6.) Why does Socrates believe one should honor the city and its laws more than one honors one’s family? Do you agree?
7.) In the end, on what basis will Socrates decide whether to escape or not?
8.) Would you have escaped if you were Socrates? Why or why not?
MLK: Fight for Civil Rights for African Americans
1.) What stuck with you from the video? Did the video help you to understand the reading?
2.) Why is MLK in jail? Why is he writing the letter?
3.) MLK advocates breaking unjust laws and says that doing so actually shows respect for the law?
a.) How do you all think breaking laws might show respect for them?
b.) According to MLK, what are the obligations that fall on one who breaks the law?
4.) MLK states that he lies between two forces in the African American community. What are these forces?
5.) In consulting the key passages in the slides on Malcolm X (Black Nationalist):
a.) Do you think his ideas are still relevant? Specifically, do you think his recommendation for violent revolution is a good one?
b.) What do you all think the proper response to social injustice is?
6.) What is Malcolm X’s definition of an Uncle Tom? Do you agree with his characterization of MLK as an “Uncle Tom”?
7.) Given the recent uprising/outrage over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, what do you think MLK’s response would have been?
8.) Please listen to the songBe Free (链接到外部网站。)written and performed by J Cole. How does this song capture the message of civil rights that MLK and Malcolm X were advocating for?
9.) What are the hopes that MLK expresses at the end of this letter?
10.) Post one quote from the reading(s) from this chat and say why it caught your attention. Students are asked to provide a quote from the reading (the aim is to show that they’d done the reading), not from my notes or from the chat questions (even if the notes or chat questions contain a quote from the reading).

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