The present time, dominated by superficial living, seems to have forgotten the decisive importance of an authentic and profound knowledge of oneself. At the roots of our history and our culture there is the Socratic motto “know yourself”. Socrates had not invented it, but he had read it, according to Plato, on the pediment of the temple of Apollo in Delphi and had taken it as a guide for philosophical research. The thinker, walking through the streets of Athens, pressed his young interlocutors by putting them in the conditions to descend into their own interiority, to know their shadows and lights, deep movements of their soul, so as to give birth to the truth.
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