If you were to ask a person’’What is living life to the fullest?’’ Chances are they’d say bungee jumping ,cliff diving,traveling or something to that effect. Hardly anyone would say growing mentally and becoming more self-aware. Right before Socrates was put to death , he stated that,“The unexamined life is not worth living.’’ This was directed towards the athenians because they lived a very acquiescent life.They obeyed the Gods without any questions and there was nothing beyond serving and pleasing
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Title Socrates was held in esteem by many people and seen as one of the wisest men in Greece. Although he was eventually forced to commit suicide for his words, his words survived. One of his famous quotes "the unexamined life is not worth living". Socrates said that if he was unable to examine life, he would not be really living. For Socrates, living meant being able to inquire about the things around him. I believe that living an examined life is important to having a successful life. People who
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The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living “The unexamined life is not worth living,” is a familiar saying that Socrates said at his trial for heresy, that is, encouraging his students to challenge the accepted beliefs and think of themselves instead and this led to his death sentence. Socrates could have avoided death by choosing life in prison or exile but he refused claiming that, these alternatives will prevent him from examining the world around him and see how to make the world a better place
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it was what Socrates meant when explaining his defense, or what the Athenian court members had based their moral and ethical views from. More importantly, Socrates was a philosopher, and he strived to find answers, even when they were not easy to discover. This led me to Socrates’ idea, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates was a strong advocate of this statement and supported it in front of the Oracle of Delphi and in the Athenian court. I was very interested with Socrates statement
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Unexamined Life Many people nowadays have really been questioning and asking themselves, “What’s the purpose of life”? If you really been questioning that then you’re really not living life to your fullest potential. The intelligent Greece philosopher Socrates once said “An unexamined life is not worth living”. Socrates stated this statement because it is saying one should examine their selves first before judging others in society and find the meaning and happiness of life. Socrates general reason
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Worth by James Adrian S. Amparado Life is beautiful, when you have your loved ones and having an experience of wonderful. The love given, and in return much love received and woven. Living the life of love, that is the life that we should have. Knowing the value of the self, the love and to it, makes the life worth it. This is how I value life, it starts by knowing thy self. This short poem that I made is about a life’s worth of a person. Having knowledge of life running through a person, attaching
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Killed the Cat As one analyzes the “Apology” by Plato, one is able to analyze and contrast and most of us would agree with Socrates when he makes the claim that “…the unexamined life is not worth living…” From a more personal standpoint I would completely agree with Socrates point of view, due to the fact most of us in society have chosen to live an “unexamined life” for centuries and as a result we live in a society where one is segregated from our freewill as human beings as well as a society
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INTRODUCTION Socrates believed that the purpose of human life was personal and spiritual growth. We are unable to grow towards greater understanding of our true nature unless we take the time to examine and reflect upon our life. Examining our life reviles pattern of our behavior. Deeper contemplation yields understanding of the subconscious programming, the powerful mental software that runs our life. Unless we become aware of those patterns, much of our life is unconscious pattern. We all have
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Running Head: THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCRATES 1 The Philosophy of Socrates: A Lover of Wisdom (2052 Words) THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCRATES 2 The lessons of life that are delivered by Socrates act as a basis for Western philosophy. Plato, the writer of The Apology, significantly respects Socrates and his dialogues act as a
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As one analyzes the “Apology” by Plato, one is able to analyze and contrast and most people would agree with Socrates when he claims that “…the unexamined life is not worth living…”. From a more personal standpoint I would completely agree with Socrates point of view, due to the fact most of us in society have chosen to live the “unexamined life” for centuries and as a result we live in a society where one has to live segregated from our freewill as human beings as well as a society that is restrained
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