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6200 | Wisdom is knowing the highest good, and conforming the will to it [Kant] |
Full Idea: Wisdom, theoretically regarded, means the knowledge of the highest good and, practically, the conformability of the will to the highest good. | |
From: Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason [1788], I.II.II.V) | |
A reaction: This seems a narrow account of wisdom, focusing entirely on goodness rather than truth. A mind that valued nothing but understood everything would have a considerable degree of wisdom, in the normal use of that word. |