Apology, Euthyphro, And The Allegory Of The Cave
What does Socrates mean when he says that “an unexamined life is no life for a human being to live?”. As I read Plato’s Apology, Euthyphro and The Allegory of the Cave, I could sense two things about unexamined life. First, unexamined life means someone who lives in self-reflection such as sin, guilty, and self-examination. According to Socrates, for living life, the most important one is that should be analyzed and explore the mind itself. One of an important thing, self-reflection of our inner mind gives us the ability to not only understand ourselves more enough but also our relationship with the universe. According to his thinking, without self-reflection, we can give up the chances to evaluate ourselves and our the central axis. In order
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Let's look at an example of Confucius who is most famous for self-reflection. He always said that when he was talking about adults, he emphasized reflection of own-self. Confucius regarded the reflection obtained through people and people so much as to have an anthropological relation of Confucius. That is to say that it grows through self-reflection like the saying of Socrates. For one thing, for example, I have deeply learned the word “self-reflection” when taking a course about relationships. I had the time to learn intensively the word "self-reflection" in some way, learning what is important. Growing up and development what everybody feels what is difficult words but, If you have time to reflect on yourself, not in this sense, you can learn what is wrong with me and how to fix it. After I analyzing, I can understand what Socrates wants to say through “unexamined life is no life”. As my experience, when I was young, my mother always treated me after I made mistakes, she gave me time alone in a room. She only said to me “think yourself what is wrong with your acting and behaviors”. This is really common treatment in my hometown when someone’s kids have mistakes. Giving time for thinking yourself. That is self-reflection. I totally agree “unexamined life is no life” what Socrates said at trial If this saying’s meaning is right same as what I thought. Not in difficult terms such as development, growing up, just we are able to think yourself by oneself without any helping what is right or not. I think that is all of the human
Let's look at an example of Confucius who is most famous for self-reflection. He always said that when he was talking about adults, he emphasized reflection of own-self. Confucius regarded the reflection obtained through people and people so much as to have an anthropological relation of Confucius. That is to say that it grows through self-reflection like the saying of Socrates. For one thing, for example, I have deeply learned the word “self-reflection” when taking a course about relationships. I had the time to learn intensively the word "self-reflection" in some way, learning what is important. Growing up and development what everybody feels what is difficult words but, If you have time to reflect on yourself, not in this sense, you can learn what is wrong with me and how to fix it. After I analyzing, I can understand what Socrates wants to say through “unexamined life is no life”. As my experience, when I was young, my mother always treated me after I made mistakes, she gave me time alone in a room. She only said to me “think yourself what is wrong with your acting and behaviors”. This is really common treatment in my hometown when someone’s kids have mistakes. Giving time for thinking yourself. That is self-reflection. I totally agree “unexamined life is no life” what Socrates said at trial If this saying’s meaning is right same as what I thought. Not in difficult terms such as development, growing up, just we are able to think yourself by oneself without any helping what is right or not. I think that is all of the human