Ethics and Values / Unit 6 Ethics 259 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Socrates: The Examined Life
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The idea
Socrates' standard at his trial: "the unexamined life is not worth living" — character requires interrogating your own beliefs and conduct, continually.
In practice
An executive who has never once asked whether her work does good is missing more than an answer; on Socrates' line, she is missing the life.
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