{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Perennial Meditations","title":"Socrates on the Examined Life | Perennial Meditations","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":249,"description":"📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates, Plato’s ApologyHe said these words at his trial. Not in a lecture hall or a private dialogue with friends, but standing before a jury of five hundred Athenians who were deciding whether he should live or die. He had been charged with corrupting the youth of Athens and impiety toward the gods. He was seventy years old. He could have apologized, softened his position, and said what they needed to hear. He refused. It cost him his life.Socrates wrote nothing. Everything we know of him comes through his students, primarily Plato, which means what survived was not a system or a doctrine but a method. A way of questioning. He wandered the markets and streets of Athens, asking people to examine what they claimed to know—about justice, courage, beauty, the good life—and found, almost without exception, that the closer you looked, the less certain things became. [...]#philosophy #lifelessons #wisdom #podcast---  🖇️ Stay Connected: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations--- 🦉 Additional Resources: Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archiveListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts---📌 Chapter Markers:0:00 Introduction 0:25 Quote 0:35 Meditation 2:50 Practice 3:10 Closing","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/S9nkr-A73R2aawPu1a8VCgtIH30UnQCenCk2Bl1jeUU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYTJl/MDY5YTc3YzI1ZDI4/YTk4N2I5MTkwZDA0/NjBkMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}