Socrates · Philosophy
Socrates’s conviction that the unexamined life is not worth living - that the care of the soul, through relentless self-examination, is the most important task of a human being.
You learned Socrates’s conviction that the examined life - the relentless care of the soul - is the only life worth living. Two thousand years later, Montaigne made self-examination the whole subject of his writing. State how Montaigne carried the project forward.
Leads to Montaigne.
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