![]() ![]() ![]() It is not life but the unexamined life, the uncared for life, that is not worth living. Being careless is the source of all the woes besetting us. Why this admonition? The cure for the ills of life is care. ![]() Literally rendered, Socrates says, “Make this offering. Rather Socrates is taking the occasion of his death to reiterate his fundamental teaching about life. And Socrates is not so stupid as to think he might forget. After all, why would Crito, a friend so committed to Socrates that he worked out a plan to bribe the guards to secure his release, a plan Socrates vetoed in the dialogue the “Crito,” why would that enthusiastic disciple ever forget Socrates’s last request? It is unthinkable he would sooner cut off his leg. If that’s what he said, he’d deserve what he got, but the admonition, “Make this offering and do not forget,” is an idiomatic mistranslation. ![]()
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