When comparing my "Allegory of the Cave" to the "Five Dialogues", which covers your dialogue during your pre-trial and trial, I see our philosophies overwhelmingly agree. First of all, I would have to agree that both of us thought that the "unexamined life is not worth living." It is evident you thought this as you said in front of the Athenian Court, "Life without this sort of examination is not worth living." You went through your life trying to get others to do the same. Proof of this comes from Apology, when you said, "As upon a great and noble horse which was somewhat sluggish because of its size and needed to be stirred up by a kind of gadfly." It is evident you went through life symbolizing a gadfly. The sluggish horse symbolized the society you lived in. You went through life "stirring" up society by having your peers examine their own lives. I also felt the "unexamined life is not worth living." This is evident by reading the "Allegory of the Cave." In the "Allegory of the Cave" one of the prisoners becomes free. Because he is free, he uses his freedom and "examines the unexamined." While the prisoner is chained, he can only look at the shadows. But once he breaks from the chains, "he is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light." The freed prisoner looking towards the light is symbolic of a person examining something of which they have not yet examined.
             A second area I agree with you is that true knowledge comes through reason, or that rather than learning, we "recall" what is already in the soul. It is obvious you thought this as you said, "One of two things follows, as I say: either we were born with the knowledge of it, and all of us know it throughout life, or those who later, we say, are learning
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