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1 Ιαν 2011 · This article, as my contribution to the debate, offers the analysis of two models of the “good life”: the one as presented by Plato and embodied in the literary character of Socrates, and the...
In this paper I critically explore this linkage of the good life and the examined life by considering some arguments that have been developed to explain or advocate the use of self-examination and self-knowledge for the pursuit of one’s well-being.
Socrates' starting point is the conventional view that hap piness is the possession of many goods (279a; cf. Aristotle, EN 1095a20 26). But as we have seen, he distinguishes different kinds of goods, with the concept of "benefit" used to differentiate weak and strong goods. Socrates' eventual position is that happiness is the possession of much
can be guided by knowledge toward the good life. This is neither a wholly introspective nor a completely isolated pursuit: we know and constitute ourselves best through dialogue with friends and critics. This rich and ori-ginal study will be of interest to researchers in the philosophy of Socrates, selfhood, and ancient thought.
Plato's Apology is the literary origin of the Socratic aphorism "The unexamined life is not worth living [for man]." Readers nearly always assume that Socrates is exhorting us to examine our own lives, yet, if Plato's dialogues can be trusted, Socrates took a different approach.
16 Σεπ 2005 · 1. Socrates’s strangeness. 2. The Socratic problem: Who was Socrates really? 2.1 Three primary sources: Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Plato. 2.2 Contemporary interpretative strategies. 2.3 Implications for the philosophy of Socrates. 3.
Western moral philosophy. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient philosophers did not distinguish between “being good” and “being happy.” For them, the best human life was a life lived in the ongoing pursuit of virtue, a life in which there is a coincidence of happiness and moral virtue. They believed that happiness is some-
