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'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld' and 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
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Wisdom is scientific and intuitive knowledge of what is by nature most precious [Aristotle]
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Wisdom does not study happiness, because it is not concerned with processes [Aristotle]
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Wisdom is the science of happiness [Leibniz]
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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
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Aristotle thinks human life is not important enough to spend a whole life on it [Nagel on Aristotle]
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Wise people can contemplate alone, though co-operation helps [Aristotle]
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Wise people have fewer acts of will, because such acts are linked together [Leibniz]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
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Most people are readier to submit to compulsion than to argument [Aristotle]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
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Metaphysics is geometrical, resting on non-contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis
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Trained minds never expect more precision than is possible [Aristotle]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science
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The object of scientific knowledge is what is necessary [Aristotle]
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