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The Examined Life

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Is the Importance of Self Examining

Janet is absolutely right. The examination in question is aimed at seeing whether you're successfully conforming to the rescripts, as it were, of your faith. And that's a very different thing. It's quite astonishing really, how in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, when moral inquiry, ethical inquiry, started again,. after this long cesura introduced by christianity.

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