Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'lectures' and 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts


5 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
Knowledge chosen for its own sake, rather than for results, is wisdom [Aristotle]
Wisdom seeks explanations, causes, and reasons why things are as they are [Aristotle, by Politis]
Wisdom is the science of happiness [Leibniz]
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
Wise people have fewer acts of will, because such acts are linked together [Leibniz]
It is not much help if a doctor knows about universals but not the immediate particular [Aristotle]