Examined Life Socrates at Life

Examined Life Socrates. In addition, socrates was accused of not believing in the gods that all the people in athens believed in. According to plato’s telling of it, socrates said the famous sentence, “the unexamined life is not worth living” during his trial in 399 b.c.

“not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.” — socrates. In several of plato’s dialogues, this tension is used to. In the apology, socrates says:

Socrates Project by Regan Allsopp

This is exemplified best in the apology. In other words, it is an endless pursuit of virtue, which is not possible without regularly engaging in introspection (plato the republic 24c; It is fair to say that the examined life is a life immersed in conversation, both with others and with oneself. Dozens of refutations lie waiting in the pages of plato for us to take apart and use ourselves, if we wish to live an examined life as he did.