THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG

Hello friends, this blog is started for the sole purpose of encouraging dialogue among people of all stripes so that there can be better understanding and greater benevolence in human societies.

As the name of this blog suggests, I shall attempt to pursue the truth in all matters by using logic and objective or dispassionate reasoning.  So, I hope to engage like-minded people from the blogosphere and other dimensions of the cyberspace in a fruitful conversation about the "examined life".

As already apparent, this is also a tribute to Socrates (469-399 BC) who is the originator of the Socratic Dialectic.  Though he claimed that "all I know is that I know nothing", he also declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living"!  He had challenged Athenians of all stations to frequent debates in a campaign to awaken people from their moral complacency and intellectual stupor.  As the famous story goes, in the end he made the ultimate sacrifice for his moral and intellectual integrity.  So, this blog is dedicated to the memory of a rare, brilliant and honestly good man.