The Examined Life: Twenty-five centuries of refusing easy answers

Philosophy begins with a single dangerous habit: refusing to accept what you have been told without asking whether it is true. Here are the books that taught the West to think.

In this collection

• Intellect
• The Succession of Forest Trees
• Some Tumultuous Little Rill
• Euthyphro
• Charmides
• The Funeral Bell
• Chesuncook
• Menexenus
• Independence
• The Poet's Delay
• My Prayer
• Concord River
• The Genealogy of Morals
• On Truth and Falsity in their Ultramoral Sense
• Speech Sent to the Senate
• Philebus
• Philosophy during the Tragic Age of the Greeks
• Inspiration
• Night and Moonlight
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
• Protagoras
• Free Love
• The Departure
• River Song
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