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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind' and 'Meno'

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

1922	Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom [Plato]
	Full Idea: If virtue is a beneficial attribute of spirit, it must be wisdom; for spiritual qualities are not in themselves advantageous, but become so with wisdom…..Hence men cannot be good by nature.
	From: Plato (Meno [c.385 BCE], 88c)
	A reaction: Personally I haven't got any 'spiritual qualities', so I don't really understand this.

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

18450	Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body [Porphyry]
	Full Idea: There is a double death. One, known by all men, consists in the separation of the body with the soul; the other, characteristic of philosophers, results in the separation of the soul from the body.
	From: Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 1Enn9 3)