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  • An Examined Life | Petermans Eye

    From the page: "You remember Socrates, who pioneered the use of inductive reasoning. He was the 'Lieutenant Columbo' of his time, only he usually had more than 'just one more question.' 'Why are you saying that? What exactly does this mean? How do you know... more

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  • Rated by dallawalla on Feb 03 2009, 5:10am

    I love philosophy, if you do.. here is some

  • Rated by metaltiger on Feb 02 2009, 8:48pm

    (from the page)Socrates claimed only examined lives are worth living. Not content merely with examining his own life, he set out to cross-examine the young men of Athens in order to help them realize they had, but the pretension of knowledge."IMHO - Questions are good.

  • Rated by Ausearth on Feb 02 2009, 8:45pm

    I used to wonder when a snake eats itself by the tail what happens when it gets to the head, Deep questioning always Leeds to deeper questioning

  • Rated by QuentinsOnTheWay on Feb 02 2009, 8:32pm

    that's exactly the purpose of education...at least that's what i always say, when i tell people i have a degree in american culture.

  • Rated by NiKo2008 on Feb 02 2009, 5:58pm

    Question begets question, and, sadly, some are unwilling to allow themselves to be vulnerable to the unknown (ever wonder how many people you have encountered who will not admit, "I don't know"). What is wrong with self-examination? What is wrong with not knowing something? Nothing, really. But certain aspects of society (that includes institutions and agencies and units) would have it believed otherwise. I don't believe such things. And I don't know everything. I've never felt freer.

  • Rated by DarylLynn on Jan 08 2009, 3:59am

    > What a marvelous question to comtemplate.

  • Rated by echocrush on Dec 01 2008, 3:04pm

    I got lost in the many pages of this blog,"Which meant, success in Socrates' eyes since he believed that those who claim to know are the ones who do not know and those who claim not to know are the ones who do know." EXACTLY!Is the examined life the only life worth living? Is truth absolute? Are ethics? Isn't the purpose of education to teach critical thinking? And what guests would you have (you seat 5 and I've waived the language barrier) at your dinner table to help in your eternal search for wisdom?

  • Rated by JIR on Nov 20 2008, 4:13am

    From the page: "You remember Socrates, who pioneered the use of inductive reasoning. He was the 'Lieutenant Columbo' of his time, only he usually had more than 'just one more question.' 'Why are you saying that? What exactly does this mean? How do you know this? How might it be refuted? Why do you think I asked this question?' And that was for starters. The Socratic Method, illustrated in the 'Socratic Dialogues of Plato,'(his prize pupil) is a series of seemingly innocent questions that caused the recipients to question their very existence. ................................ Soon Socrates got hauled up before the people's magistrate in 453 BC accused by the poet Meletus of 'corrupting the youth and promoting his own divinities over that of the ruling class.' Under intense questioning, (the victim could question his accuser then) Socrates extracted an admission from Meletus, that he couldn't distinguish corruption from purity. Fortunately, the only record we have of Socrates' words are from Plato's 'The Trial and Death of Socrates' 'God commissioned me to search for the truth,' Socrates said, 'If I am evil, let the young men I corrupted and their relatives come forth and speak against me. They will not, of course, because they know that I am not evil.'" And he drank happily the hemlock drink...

  • Rated by markchenjd on Nov 03 2008, 8:39am

    Agree with nearly everything written on this page.