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Socrates: Man and Myth

Philosophy Now

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Socrates' Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything

Socrates' thought is that everything that matters to us starts and finishes from there. He's someone who says it's no good just having the answer. You've got to have an explanation why that's the answer as well. And yet he himself doesn't claim to have that understanding. It might be that actually the best, Socrates famously said the unexamined life is not worth living. So what makes the examined life worth living? Okay, what is that? Well, try to think about it like this. All we've got is what goes on inside our heads. That would be part of what it would be to have. Or just as long as we understand the limits of our

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