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 Reference
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]