Plato claims that only a life subjected to examination and evaluation is worthy of human beings. Hence, he presupposes that we can examine, inspect, and evaluate life; that we can, as parts, grasp the whole. Starting with our childhood, we can successively enlarge our object of investigation until it covers our whole (unfinished) life as it unfolds in a world that must, in the main, be assumed to be known.
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(2005). Descriptions of Maximally Comprehensive Perspectives. In: Drengson, A. (eds) The Selected Works of Arne Naess. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4519-6_14
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