Maureen Joy C.

Espinosa

BSED ENGLISH 2B

“The unexamined Life is not worth living.”

– Socrates

“What makes Life worth living?”

Socrates stated that "The unexamined life is not worth living" implies further an
unexamined human life lacks significance and purpose. Socrates believed that living a life where
you live under the rules of others, in a continuous routine without examining what you actually
want out of is not worth living. Then what makes life really worth living?

As what I understand in Socrates statement is that Lives without thought, values, purpose,
and principles are not worth living. Life is not worth living if one does not think, Socrates even
compared it in an creatures and animals that is simply sleeping, eating, and procreating with the
absence of an examined life. An examined life allows the delivery of love, wrath, kindness, and
joy to the right people, to the right path, things, and all at the appropriate moment. It promotes
improving, learning, and believing. However, Life is indeed worth living if you perceive the
necessary morals, if you have a ethical mind. With that you can enjoy and understand more of
your existence. Life is worth living if you know how to appreciate things even it is a little or
huge, life is worth living if you know how to help others who in needed, life is worth living if
you know how to understand even if you are hurting, even if it cost you a lot. And life is worth
living if you have a heart that know how to love. It is worth living with your family, friends,
loved ones. Life is worth living if you know how to love and understand yourself with awareness.

Socrates stated that "the unexamined life is not worth living." The most essential aspect of
living is evaluating ones decisions and beliefs with logic and deciding their validity. If a person
chooses not to live an unexamined life, they will discover that there own life appears to lack
of importance and will be unhappy. It makes life worth living if you understand your purpose and
able to connect your values and principles to your passion,
 References

@Pracin Jain Academy https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ readersblog /pracin-jain-academy/an-

unexamined-life-is-not-worth-living-socrates-28087/