The Hemlock CupBy: Bettany Hughes We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. For seventy years Socrates was a vigorous citizen of Golden Age Athens, philosophising in the squares and public arenas rather than in the courts of kings, before his beloved city turned on him, condemning him to death by