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Single Idea 23890

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom ]

Full Idea

It is evident that Plato regards true wisdom as something supernatural.

Gist of Idea

For Plato true wisdom is supernatural

Source

report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Simone Weil - God in Plato p.61

Book Ref

Weil,Simone: 'Late Philosophical Writings' [Notre Dame 2015], p.61

A Reaction

Taken literally, I assume this is wrong, but we can empathise with the thought. Wisdom has the feeling of rising above the level of mere knowledge, to achieve the overview I associate with philosophy.

The 37 ideas with the same theme [defining and explaining the nature of true wisdom]:

5896 Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man [Pythagoras, by Porphyry]
7990 Serene wisdom is freedom from ties, and indifference to fortune [Anon (Bhag)]
13786 Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works [Plato]
1922 Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom [Plato]
354 Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible [Plato]
14179 The finest branch of wisdom is justice and moderation in ordering states and families [Plato]
23890 For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Plato, by Weil]
78 Wisdom is scientific and intuitive knowledge of what is by nature most precious [Aristotle]
5248 Wisdom does not study happiness, because it is not concerned with processes [Aristotle]
548 Knowledge chosen for its own sake, rather than for results, is wisdom [Aristotle]
11228 Wisdom seeks explanations, causes, and reasons why things are as they are [Aristotle, by Politis]
19693 There is practical wisdom (for action), and theoretical wisdom (for deep understanding) [Aristotle, by Whitcomb]
7278 Words of wisdom are precise and clear [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)]
9199 Wisdom for one instant is as good as wisdom for eternity [Chrysippus]
21405 Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Cicero, by Long]
13310 Wisdom does not lie in books, and unread people can also become wise [Seneca]
7911 Theory vanishes when one has obtained wisdom [Rahulabhadra]
21875 The wisdom of a free man is a meditation on life, not on death [Spinoza]
17230 If we are not wholly wise, we should live by good rules and maxims [Spinoza]
19396 Wisdom is knowing all of the sciences, and their application [Leibniz]
19336 Wisdom involves the desire to achieve perfection [Leibniz]
12926 Wisdom is the science of happiness [Leibniz]
5540 Cleverness is shown in knowing what can reasonably be asked [Kant]
21422 Moral self-knowledge is the beginning of all human wisdom [Kant]
6200 Wisdom is knowing the highest good, and conforming the will to it [Kant]
21979 Wisdom emerges at the end of a process [Hegel]
14857 The highest wisdom has the guise of simplicity [Nietzsche]
14888 Wisdom prevents us from being ruled by the moment [Nietzsche]
22659 It is wisdom to believe what you desire, because belief is needed to achieve it [James]
21584 A sense of timelessness is essential to wisdom [Russell]
22496 Wisdom only implies the knowledge achievable in any normal lifetime [Foot]
22396 We take courage, temperance, wisdom and justice as moral, but Aristotle takes wisdom as intellectual [Foot]
7623 For ancient Greeks being wise was an ethical value [Putnam]
23948 Wisdom needs both thought and passion, with each reflecting on the other [Solomon]
5333 Philosophy needs wisdom about who we are, as well as how we ought to be [Flanagan]
19735 Wisdom has a higher value than understanding, which has a higher value than knowledge [Greco]
20186 Unlike knowledge, wisdom cannot be misused [Zagzebski]