Which is more important?
Which is more important? To live a life pursuing truth and wisdom (that’s the task of philosophy) or to strive to live a good life and to dedicate your efforts to helping others also live good lives? Or do they necessarily go hand-in-hand?
I’d think philosophers would want to say they go hand-in-hand, but I’m suspicious of this. What worries me more is that the task of living a good life, helping others, and setting an example for them, is actually more worthwhile than spending all one’s efforts doggedly pursuing truth and wisdom.
Or maybe this - that we should spend a certain period of our lives pursuing truth and wisdom, and the rest of our lives actually living it out. So you could say that the first half of our lives are spent pursuing theory, then the second half is spent actually living out that theory? Or maybe we would want to say that we can actually do both at the same time? So we can strive to understand truth and wisdom while actually living out a good life (which may involve constantly revising our definition of what the “good life” actually is…)