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PASSING THE UNEXAMINED LIFE.(Socrates)(Critical Essay)
If I say this would be disobedience to God, and that is why I cannot "mind my own business", you will not believe me--you'll think I'm pulling your leg. If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living, you will be even less inclined to believe me.
--Socrates
We must now proceed to the further question which we set ourselves, whether the just live better and happier lives than the unjust. It is, in fact, ...
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