The Unexamined Essay is not Worth Writing:
What Socrates and Boethius can teach us about writing
I. The Tragedy of the five-part essay
II. Using the Essay as a Unified Argument
III. What Can We Learn from these Two Philosophers
IV. Socrates
A. Plato’s Teacher and Platonism
B. The Dialogues about His Trial and Death
C. The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living. Apologia
V. Boethius
A. The Heir of Plato and Aristotle
B. The Last Roman
C. His Legacy
D. Returning to His True Homeland
VI. Why is the Unexamined Life Not Worth Living
A. Self-delusion
B. The Viciousness of Wrong Ideas
C. Ambition over Humility
D. The Wrong People in Charge
E. We End by Murdering Those Whom We Should Hear
The unexamined life can only be deemed less than worthless, for having deceived ourselves, we are then only able to deceive others, and depending on how much we invested in our false knowledge, we tenaciously persist in our delusions, even to the point of seeing those who hold the truth as our enemies, and we kill Socrates and Boethius.
The unexamined life
can only be deemed less than worthless
for having deceived ourselves
we are then only able to deceive others
and depending on how much we invested in our false knowledge
we tenaciously persist in our delusions
even to the point of seeing those who hold the truth as our enemies
and we kill Socrates and Boethius.