#55081
02/03/2002 9:03 PM
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Can anyone give me source for the Socrates' quote "An unexamined life is not worth living." I really want to use it in my dissertation, but need a referrence other than saying I heard it somewhere!
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#55082
02/03/2002 9:22 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear Monika: The famous quote is in the Apology 38
Some one will say: Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your
For wherever he goes
he must speak out.
tongue, and then you may go into a foreign city, and no one
will interfere with you? Now I have great difficulty in making
you understand my answer to this. For if I tell you that to do
as you say would be a disobedience to the God, and therefore
that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am
38a
serious; and if I say again that daily to discourse about virtue,
and of those other things about which you hear me examining
myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and that the
unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to
believe me. Yet I say what is true, although a thing of which it
is hard for me to persuade you. Also, I have never been
accustomed to think that I deserve to suffer any harm. Had I
money I might have estimated the offence at what I was able to
pay, and not have been much the worse. But I have none, and
38b
therefore I must ask you to proportion the fine to my means.
Well, perhaps I could afford a mina, and therefore I propose
that penalty: Plato, Crito, Critobulus, and Apollodorus, my
friends here, bid me say thirty minae, and they will be the
sureties. Let thirty minae be the penalty; for which sum they
38c
will be ample security to you.
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#55083
02/03/2002 9:35 PM
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Durn you, bill.  I had Evan's Quotations open to the Socrates quote... and then lost my internet connection. By the time I logged back on, you'd beaten me to it. Ah well! I cannot say "great minds think alike", but at least I am thinking in reasonable imitation of your great mind.  [gotta getta betta ISP -e]
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#55084
02/03/2002 9:40 PM
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Dear Keiva: Beware of the alternate version, small minds run in the same creek.
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#55085
02/03/2002 11:05 PM
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I thought it was: 'fools seldom differ'. But whichever, I'm still well impressed. Thanks for your help.
M
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#55086
02/06/2002 2:36 AM
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addict
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Greatness of mind is irrelevant (although abundant) here. If there is only one answer, what difference between great and small? Greatness of mind implies novel thought and the similarities are of process rather than the final answer.
[complaining-about-life-in-general-e]
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#55087
02/06/2002 12:46 PM
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enthusiast
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The original is ho de bios anexetastos ou biôtos anthrôpôi (with de sometimes omitted).
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#55088
02/06/2002 12:49 PM
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ho de bios anexetastos ou biôtos anthrôpôi
Trans. The biogaphy of a lady of the night is connected to the biographies of her customers.
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