This Must Be Amazing Grace

Plato’s Apology is about Socrates’ trial  for impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death. In this Dialogue, Plato has Socrates saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living.” Philosopher William Jamison disagrees with Socrates (or is it just Plato?). He argues that an unexamined life is not worthless (but I don’t think Socrates is saying it is).            Jamison (“Is the Unexamined Life Worth Living?”) goes further to say that an unexamined life is not only worth living but an examined life should not be encouraged because it produces a spiritual feeling in those who engage in it. If this is allowed, according to Jamison, it could endanger both the thinker and the entire society. For Jamison, “once you get a taste of this kind of thing, you do not want to give it up." (Sounds like a drug.) Someone who engages in self-critical examination eventually becomes entangled with it, according to ...