life. According to the Greek philosophers, the ignorant man cannot be genuinely happy. Socrates, whose maxim, “The unexamined life is not worth living” is often quoted, was the embodiment of the ideal philosopher, or lover of wisdom. The classic conception of philosophy (“ to know the good is to do it”) was also central in the writings of the two greatest Greek philosophers, Plato and Aristotle. Yet this philosophical approach has been less and less influential in recent centuries. If you were to