E xplore Yourself ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’ Socrates Thinking about what you might like to do with your life is a big head ache. The thing to remember is — it’s your life — and everything has to start from where you are now‚ but the thing you want to know is about your future. Before you can visualise a future self‚ you need to look at yourself today — what interests you‚ what you are good at‚ what really matters to you — in order to evaluate possible future roles and
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Vanessa Duran Professor Guiu Philosophy 107 October 25‚ 2016 Paper 1 In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave what I get from Socrates statement “The unexamined life is not worth living” is PIE-AST. PIE-AST stands for prisoners‚ illusion‚ escape‚ ascend‚ spiritual technique and‚ transformed. In today’s society I believe a lot of us are trapped in a cave just like Socrates was. We are prisoners of our own culture just like in The Allegory of the Cave because in Athenian culture they were only taught a
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Mysterious is what life seems to be and time seems too short for us to enjoy it. Most of us are often told to live life to the fullest but we were never told how to do so. As we grow‚ we continue to search on how we will make our life worth living. We tend to be adventurous to try to know the world and what we can do to say that our life is worth living. People have different perspectives on how is life worth living. For me‚ there are many things that make my life worth living. Life offers many challenges
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June 20‚ 2011 Is Life worth Living? Is life worth Living? This is a question that I hear felinely. Some human beings believe that life isn’t worth living because it’s a lot of ups and downs in their lives or because they life is miserable. And it is some that believe that life is worth living. Life is a very beautiful and wonderful thing. Life isn’t meant to be giving to you or to be easy‚ God never said life was going to be easy and everything supposed to be giving to you. Life is what you make
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IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? We have so many reasons for us to give up our lives but are not the reasons to live it even more? Yes today I’m asking you’ll this question. Every time that something goes wrong in our lives we start complaining and finding out faults in ourselves. It’s not wrong to find out our faults in a situation but we go wrong when we start blaming ourselves for every mistake that occurred or every reason that we are in that situation. Our life is worth a million‚ and the reason is that
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Philosophy‚ Sept. 18‚ 2014 The Unexamined Life When calling into question Socrates’ idea of an “unexamined life”‚ one must understand exactly what the purpose of examination is. In most cases‚ examination is used to help make decisions or judgements based on certain standards‚ beliefs‚ values‚ etc.‚ which are then reflected back upon to make sure that the subject of examination is in-fact living up to these ideals. Therefore‚ in terms of Socrates’ view‚ an “unexamined life” is one that is unjudged or
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What is a Life Worth Living? Phil 2010: Introduction to Philosophy In the number of works that Plato crafted and put together chronicling his teacher’s life‚ views and opinions‚ one of the most famous and predominant statements made by Socrates is that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Appearing in Plato’s The Apology‚ the quote essentially summarizes how Socrates had walked out his entire life and the way he attempted to convince others to walk out theirs’. His pursuit of changing
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that says‚ “The unexamined life isn’t worth living.” There is a difference between living the way you do and living the way you should. If you don’t examine your life‚ you’re living with no purpose and to me that’s equivalent to not living at all. It’s never to late to examine your life. It’s something every person should do. Ask yourself if you’re living the life you want to live. Are you who you perceive yourself as around everyone‚ not just certain people. Living a good life comes with lots
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Apology‚ Socrates stated that “the unexamined life is not livable (or worth living) for a human being”. Before discussing the meaning of this statement‚ it is imperative that the key words are broken down. Socrates used the word “worth” in his statement‚ which in this context has to do with whether humans will achieve substance in their lives. When he speaks of “life‚” Socrates is stating that one must venture out of the unexamined life and live the examined life. Socrates also uses the word “human
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According to Plato‚ Socrates had differentiated two ways of life‚ unexamined life and examined life. Socrates was irritated by the Sophists in his Era‚ and their leaning to teach logic as a means of achieving self-centered ends. An unexamined life to not examine or question one’s life is to risk misunderstanding one’s self in relation to the world‚ to remain oblivious to one’s thoughts‚ emotions‚ behaviors‚ and thus‚ to be a passive receiver of experience‚ instead of an active interpreter of experience
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