"An unexamined life is not worth living"

Posted by ESC on September 11, 2003

In Reply to: "An unexamined life is not worth living" posted by masakim on September 10, 2003

: : : : Does anyone know where this quote came from and who said it?

: : : Socrates (470-399 BC) said it.

: : I beg to differ. According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Barlett and Justin Kaplan, general editor (Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2002):

: : The life which is unexamined is not worth living. "Apology." Plato (c. 428 - 348 B.C.)

: It is *quoted* in Plato's "Apology [of Socrates]."

: From "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 5th Ed" :

: Socrates 469-399 BC
: The unexamined life is not worth living.
: Plato [tr. Lane Cooper] _Apology_ 42a

Dueling quote books!!

• "An unexamined life is not worth living" Bemused 11/September/03
  • Perchance ESC 12/September/03
    • Plato Wrote What Socrates Said + interp. of phrase EAH 13/September/03