"Interviewer: So today society is more in need of philosophy than ever... Professor Berti: Not only today, but always. Philosophy is in fact inherent in human nature; it has always existed and will always exist, despite attempts to decree its end. This was not only the thinking of Aristotle, for whom “all human beings by nature (i.e. males and females, free and slaves, Greeks and barbarians) desire knowledge”, and philosophy – if rightly understood – is the highest form of knowledge. Already in the Apology, Plato has Socrates say that ‘a life without inquiry is not worth living for a human being’."