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All the ideas for 'Wisdom', 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes' and 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition'

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4 ideas

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

19695

The devil was wise as an angel, and lost no knowledge when he rebelled [Whitcomb]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

19068

Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]