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Ideas for 'works (all lost)', 'Phaedo' and 'Postscripts on supervenience'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

354	Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible [Plato]
	Full Idea: It is wisdom that makes possible courage and self-control and integrity or, in a word, true goodness.
	From: Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 069b)
	A reaction: Aristotle also says that prudence (phronesis) makes virtue possible.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

370	Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife [Plato]
	Full Idea: Souls which have purified themselves sufficiently by philosophy will live after death without bodies.
	From: Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 114b)
	A reaction: Purifying it of what? Error, or desire, or narrow-mindedness, or the physical?

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

1749	If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder]
	Full Idea: If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now.
	From: Aristippus the elder (fragments/reports [c.395 BCE]), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 02.Ar.4
	A reaction: Presumably philosophers develop inner laws which other people lack.