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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

7352	Jesus said learning was unnecessary, and only the spirit of the Law was needed [Jesus, by Johnson,P]
	Full Idea: Jesus was a learned Jew who said that learning was not necessary, who took the spirit and not the letter as the essence of the Law.
	From: report of Jesus (reports [c.32]) by Paul Johnson - The History of the Jews Pt II
	A reaction: This seems to me the perfect opposite of Socrates's intellectualism, offering the essence of morality as 'purity of heart', rather than careful thought about virtue or principles. On the whole I am with Socrates, but the idea is interesting.