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The A.V. Club discussed The Partially Examined Life in their publication for the week of February 23–29. [7] The National Catholic Reporter mentioned The Partially Examined Life in a blog post on Kierkegaard on February 27, 2012. [8] Bad Philosophy Podcast episode 116 mentions The Partially Examined Life. [9]
The Examined Life is a 1989 collection of philosophical meditations by the philosopher Robert Nozick. [1] The book drew a number of critical reactions. The work is drawn partially as a response to Socrates assertion in Plato's "The Apology of Socrates" that the unexamined life is one not worth living [2] [3]
Kekes is the author of a number of books on ethics, including The Examined Life (Penn State University Press, 1988), The Morality of Pluralism (Princeton University Press, 1996), Moral Wisdom and Good Lives (Cornell University Press, 1997), The Art of Life (Cornell University Press, 2005), The Roots of Evil (Cornell University Press, 2007), Enjoyment (Oxford University Press, 2009), [1] and ...
In 1889, Gopčević published an ethnographic study titled Old Serbia and Macedonia that was a Serbian nationalist book on Kosovo and Macedonia and contained a pro-Serbian ethnographic map of Macedonia. [3] [4] Gopčević's biographer argues that he did not actually go to Kosovo and the study is not based on authentic experiences. [4]
The Examined Life (1989), aimed towards a more general audience, explores themes of love, the impact of death, questions of faith, the nature of reality, and the meaning of life. The book takes its name from the quote by Socrates, that "the unexamined life is not worth living".
In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani praised the book as "an insightful and beautifully written… a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks." [6] An abridged version of the book was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The Examined Life was long-listed for the 2013 Guardian First Book Award. [7]
The book was serialised as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012, and spent 10 weeks on the Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list. It has been translated into Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese and Korean, and will be published in a further 14 languages including Spanish, Chinese and Hebrew. [ 1 ]
Arthur Coleman Danto (January 1, 1924 – October 25, 2013) was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University.He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he contributed significantly to a number of fields, including the philosophy of action.