Philosophy Buffs, what other famous Philosophers can I use to support Socrates' theory of "The Unexamined life is not worth living"?? Thanks..

 

Look at John Locke perhaps? Phew---that was a lot of years ago and I can't remember!

 

That's not so much a theory as just a quote, isn't it? I can't find the line in my old "The Trial and Death of Socrates," but I'm positive that's where I read it. Anyway, I'm not sure if this will be useful, but other guys we read in that same class included Nietzsche ("Ecce Homo" and "On The Genealogy of Morals") and Aristotle ("Nicomachean Ethics").

 

Another famous philosopher is Immanuel Kant. He talks a lot about existance and reality, but I don't remember if he said much about the why instead of the what. My professor kept using the term "brain in the vat" when talking about Kant, almost identical to the whole "Matrix" idea. Very tough reading, though- far beyond the Greek works I've read.

 

Jerry Springer?
No seriously. I second John Locke.

 

Whoever said "know thyself"

 

shakespeare said that dude.

 

you can quote me for anything, use whatever i say to argue whatever you want, as long as i get credit and royalties for any publication of my words