Socrates is quoted, in Plato’s Apology, as saying “I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living”.
A recent discussion of this passage, among Contributors, lead to a discussion of whether the study of philosophy can be justified. Several Contributors were put on the spot; so, to give them and others a chance to develop considered responses, the question being put forward is can the protracted academic study of philosophy be justified? Further, is the unexamined life not worth living?
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