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Ideas for 'Politics', 'Phaedo' and 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance'

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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.