Caleb Anderson: Authenticity and the Unexamined Life

Socrates is known for his claim that the unexamined life is not worth living. What did he mean by that, and what implications does this have?

I have spent thousands of hours counselling others, often young people. I have been struck by an explosion in the number of young people (and not so young people) who seem devoid of direction, desperate for certainty, lost in the convenience of dogma.