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Full Idea
The unexamined life is not worth living for men.
Gist of Idea
The unexamined life is not worth living for men
Source
Socrates (reports of last days [c.399 BCE]), quoted by Plato - The Apology 38a
Book Ref
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.33
A Reaction
I wonder why? I can see Nietzsche offering aristocratic heroes and dancers as counterexamples. Compare Idea 3798.
Related Ideas
Idea 3798 An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one [Dennett]
Idea 1655 If goodness needs true opinion but not knowledge, you can skip the 'examined life' [Vlastos on Plato]
| 343 | The unexamined life is not worth living for men [Socrates] |
| 339 | Men fear death as a great evil when it may be a great blessing [Socrates] |
| 347 | Will I stand up against the law, simply because I have been unjustly judged? [Socrates] |
| 344 | If death is like a night of dreamless sleep, such nights are very pleasant [Socrates] |
| 2 | We should not even harm someone who harms us [Socrates] |
| 345 | A good man cannot be harmed, either in life or in death [Socrates] |
| 346 | One ought not to return a wrong or injury to any person, whatever the provocation [Socrates] |
| 341 | Wealth is good if it is accompanied by virtue [Socrates] |
| 338 | Socrates is accused of denying the gods, saying sun is stone and moon is earth [Socrates, by Plato] |