Socrates stated that "the unexamined life is not worth living", but the author believes this was an overstatement. While examining one's decisions is important, humans are imperfect and will inevitably fail to reflect sometimes without their lives becoming unworthy. Making mistakes can be part of learning, and people can still learn from their errors without their lives losing value.
Socrates stated that "the unexamined life is not worth living", but the author believes this was an overstatement. While examining one's decisions is important, humans are imperfect and will inevitably fail to reflect sometimes without their lives becoming unworthy. Making mistakes can be part of learning, and people can still learn from their errors without their lives losing value.
Socrates stated that "the unexamined life is not worth living", but the author believes this was an overstatement. While examining one's decisions is important, humans are imperfect and will inevitably fail to reflect sometimes without their lives becoming unworthy. Making mistakes can be part of learning, and people can still learn from their errors without their lives losing value.
which I've heard since I was a youngster and which I really do believe a hundred percent true back then, but as of now, I realized that this statement does have a degree of truth to it but was exaggerated because I agree that examining our decisions and views in life and evaluating if they are correct or the proper thing to do is a vital element of life, but I believe that was an overstatement because it looks that Socrates believes that people who do not examine their lives should not live; the fact that we are human beings implies that we are imperfect, and we occasionally fail to reflect on our actions. However, this does not mean that our lives are no longer worth living since at the end of the day, we will still learn how to fix our mistakes and making mistakes is sometimes a necessary part of life in order to learn how to do the right thing next time.