The Examined Life

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Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
(James Miller)

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(Micah Toub)

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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Growing Up Jung
05.29.2011

Nearly 2500 years ago, Socrates celebrated the pursuit of wisdom, and famously said “the unexamined life is not worth living.”  But does rigorous self examination actually lead to a happy or fulfilled life?  It didn’t seem to work some of history’s most famous philosophers, including Rousseau and Nietzsche.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk about t his idea of the examined life, and explore the new science of the self.

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