Sleepy Philosophy | Socrates | Send Me To Sleep
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The unexamined life is not worth living. I remember the first time that I heard that phrase and I mean I couldn't quite tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing but I remember the profound feeling of being recognized in a certain way in that phrase encompassing some feelings and ideas that I'd been having for some time at that point, perhaps most of my life. And it made me feel validated. It felt like an incredibly true statement to hear.
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And I feel like perhaps I was a little jaded at that time because I think I was surrounded by people who weren't particularly interested or perhaps ready to engage in philosophical ideas on a particular level and if you're someone who likes to dig deep into a topic or a conversation, really pick apart things. And you're with people who aren't really in that frame of mind. They can sometimes accuse you of being over-analytical or perhaps of overthinking. and this is something that always annoyed me you know and if you're the same as me then you might sympathize with that feeling of being put down for questioning too much but i think i've always thought of the philosophical process, although I don't think I will have always have called it the philosophical process, but I've always thought of that way of thinking as essential to life, as a means of properly understanding life and yourself.
And so to hear this phrase was like an awakening really, a realization that these ideas and this way of thinking that I enjoyed so much was in fact also supported by what is considered to be one of the greatest minds in Western philosophy. Hello, by the way. My name's Andrew. Thank you for joining me this evening. Tonight, I'll be talking about the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, and that phrase which I stated previously, the unexamined life is not worth living. I could be paraphrasing there, I'm not entirely sure if that's the exact phrase. But that phrase is attributed to Socrates. And, like I say, When I first heard it, I felt it to be very true, resonated with it very much. And I think this was around the time when I first became interested in the topic of philosophy, or dare I say, even first began to really understand what philosophy was.
Now, it wasn't exactly the first encounter with philosophical ideas that I'd had. I remember distinctly that that was a book that involved ideas of stoicism. And so, after reading a little bit about... Well, what I've come to learn was it was essentially sort of pop culture-ism around stoicism, but still ideas that I resonated with quite profoundly.
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