Unexamined life is not worth living
- Socrates
Socrates: the famous ancient Greek thinker, philosopher and educator, with its student of Plato and Aristotle and Plato's students to become "the ancient Greek three-yin," is considered the founder of Western philosophy. Gathered at the Athens court on charges of insult God, corrosion and other young people thought the death penalty, refused to flee to drink poison and died.
People, even that is because it will know how to think, but thinking is considered the highest state of life, life is a lot of thinking angle, meditation, reflection, insight, awakening.
Here just say "unexamined" (Reflection)
First explain what "unexamined."
Simple generalization is without thinking and planning, some people powerless live and what did not know life, life will come to an end; some people busy every day, do not know what they are for, day after day passed; still others unexamined every day, or even whether he was still alive.
This is "unexamined" life, so that life is terrible, so people do not think the meaning of life will live roughly into two types.
The first type: zombie-type, there is no direction in life people will live like a zombie, like the crowd, such as people under the oppressive rule of this type of people, they only know that workers will dawn, dark days home for dinner day after day, never changed, if not start work tomorrow to tell him that the next day he would be anxious day because he did not have his own ideas, do not know what to do, just know that the rulers behave in under the leadership of their own enslavement.
The second type: crimes against type, compared to a zombie, this type of great harm to society, they do not reflect on their ability, not man's basic! The bottom line, and no moral values, because he did not understand reflection (reflection is part of thinking).
For example, the Japanese imperialist ideology during World War II in mind for this nation, the people are ignorant of the KMT will rationalize aggression, the public is not a war of aggression right reflection, no reflection of the results is to become a fanatical aggression activists, many Japanese Women are more sacrifice their all in this fight, the national economy is back several decades, a reflection of the nation is not dangerous, and could easily be denied.
In fact, not only Socrates proposed, the great sage Confucius philosophy reflection once said, "I three times daily," said This is the meaning, Confucius said more specific, we should always reflect on their actions to avoid error, is to avoid being misled by others.
What kind of person to become, or to what kind of life. Everyone is not the same. Some people think my life should be a number of chic, live for today; some people think to delay gratification can give the heart a deeper level of happiness. This is all part of different types of people, of course, there are many lifestyle factors contributing to these differences in many aspects, including the childhood home environment, parental education, lifestyle and so on.
But in any case need to know what they want in the end is to look at my heart, inward-looking, rather than seeing other people live, what kind of life, and that they feel the need to aspire to that kind of fishes.
A person is often the pursuit of happiness should be in seeking and not seeking out, every man has his own pursuit of happiness, then go look inward.
If happiness relying on other people, then you never get happiness.
