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Ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'reports of last days' and 'The soul's dependence on the body'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

343	The unexamined life is not worth living for men [Socrates]
	Full Idea: The unexamined life is not worth living for men.
	From: Socrates (reports of last days [c.399 BCE]), quoted by Plato - The Apology 38a
	A reaction: I wonder why? I can see Nietzsche offering aristocratic heroes and dancers as counterexamples. Compare Idea 3798.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

23269	Philosophy must start from clearly observed facts [Galen]
	Full Idea: True philosophers concern themselves first and foremost to take clearly observed facts as their point of departure.
	From: Galen (The soul's dependence on the body [c.170], Kiv.11.817)
	A reaction: I love this one, especially the desire that the facts be 'clearly observed'. That, thank goodness, eliminates quantum mechanics. If you don't love history and the physical sciences, you are not a philosopher. Oh, and reliable gossip.