Readers are invited to put flesh on the bones of the burning question by means of an experiment in self-examination which, on the storied account of the ancient captive, Socrates, is the focus of an authentic philosophic life. Readers are cautioned to be wary of the intrusion of an ideal self—the imaginary person one believes one is or the imaginary person one aspires to be. After achieving Cartesian readiness, readers are escorted through the process of self-examination by means of penetrating questions each is asked to answer honestly and conscientiously. The author then argues that survival behavior Kant would conceive as contemptible may also be conceived as biologically intelligent survival behavior. After exploring aspects of biological intelligence, the penultimate chapter concludes with the argument that moral judgments of the survival behavior of barbarized captives are well served by restraint. The kind of restraint that has a life in the ancient Greek virtue of moderation (sophrosyne/σωφροσύνη).