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Ideas for 'works', 'The View from Nowhere' and 'The Golden Bowl, and Lit as Moral Philosophy'

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

23890

For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Plato, by Weil]

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

3240	There is more insight in fundamental perplexity about problems than in their supposed solutions [Nagel]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

3060	Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]

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

3242	Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture can't skip it [Nagel]

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

3241	It seems mad, but the aim of philosophy is to climb outside of our own minds [Nagel]