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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 30 ideas from 'works'

For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Plato, by Weil]
Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
Two contradictories force us to find a relation which will correlate them [Plato, by Weil]
When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things [Aristotle on Plato]
Plato's idea of 'structure' tends to be mathematically expressed [Plato, by Koslicki]
A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause [Aristotle on Plato]
Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue [Plato, by Nehamas]
If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common [Aristotle on Plato]
Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself [Plato, by Aristotle]
If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars [Aristotle on Plato]
The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR on Plato]
A good explanation totally rules out the opposite explanation (so Forms are required) [Plato, by Ruben]
We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Plato, by Koslicki]
Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics [Plato, by Koslicki]
Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object [Plato, by Koslicki]
Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies [Plato, by Aristotle]
Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist [Plato, by Koslicki]
Only universals have essence [Plato, by Politis]
Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is [Plato, by Politis]
Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True [Plato, by Gray]
Pleasure is better with the addition of intelligence, so pleasure is not the good [Plato, by Aristotle]
Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions [Vlastos on Plato]
Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech [Benardete,JA on Plato]
Plato never refers to examining the conscience [Plato, by Foucault]
As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul [Williams,B on Plato]
Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life [Plato, by Nehamas]
Plato, unusually, said that theoretical and practical wisdom are inseparable [Plato, by Kraut]
Plato is boring [Nietzsche on Plato]
Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle]