The Unexamined Essay is not Worth Writing

The Unexamined Essay is not Worth Writing: What Socrates and Boethius can teach us about writing

I. The Tragedy of the five-part essay II. Using the Essay as a Unified Argument III. What Can We Learn from these Two Philosophers IV. Socrates A. Plato’s Teacher and Platonism B. The Dialogues about His Trial and Death C. The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living. Apologia V. Boethius A. The Heir of Plato and Aristotle B. The Last Roman C. His Legacy D. Returning to His True Homeland VI. Why is the Unexamined Life Not Worth Living A. Self-delusion B. The Viciousness of Wrong Ideas C. Ambition over Humility D. The Wrong People in Charge E. We End by Murdering Those Whom We Should Hear

The unexamined life can only be deemed less than worthless, for having deceived ourselves, we are then only able to deceive others, and depending on how much we invested in our false knowledge, we tenaciously persist in our delusions, even to the point of seeing those who hold the truth as our enemies, and we kill Socrates and Boethius.

The unexamined life can only be deemed less than worthless for having deceived ourselves we are then only able to deceive others and depending on how much we invested in our false knowledge we tenaciously persist in our delusions even to the point of seeing those who hold the truth as our enemies and we kill Socrates and Boethius.