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Ideas for 'reports', 'Whose Justice? Which Rationality?' and 'Culture and Value'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

16010	While faith is a passion (as Kierkegaard says), wisdom is passionless [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Culture and Value [1945], 53e)
	A reaction: [Idea from SY] Personally I don't agree that wisdom is passionless. At the very least, Aristotle allows the wise person to be appropriately angry. [PG]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

1798	He studied philosophy by suspending his judgement on everything [Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: He studied philosophy on the principle of suspending his judgement on all points.
	From: report of Pyrrho (reports [c.325 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.Py.3
	A reaction: In what sense was Pyrrho a philosopher, then? He must have asserted SOME generalised judgments.