Perspectives on Wisdom : An Exploration in the History of Philosophy from West to East.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonasio, Giulia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wisdom.

Philosophy, Comparative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.

Summary:

Wisdom has been understood in different ways across time and space.Since antiquity, wisdom has been considered the defining trait of the philosopher.Wisdom has been conceived as practical or theoretical, useful or for its own sake.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Giulia Bonasio

Introduction

1 Wisdom: what is it?

2 Practical and theoretical wisdom

3 Wisdom and the good life

4 Wisdom and being virtuous

5 Exercising wisdom: wisdom like a skill

6 Methodology and content of the volume

Bibliography

Dorothea Frede

Can Virtue be Taught? Plato on Political Wisdom

1 Preliminary remarks on the meaning of 'virtue' and 'wisdom'

2 The teachability of virtue: the Protagoras

3 The teachability of virtue: the Meno

4 Getting better and getting better off according to the Republic

5 Being better and being better off in the Laws

6 The vanishing of the philosopher-king in the post-Republican dialogues

7 Pessimism vs. optimism in Plato's political work

8 Conclusions: political wisdom nowadays

Sylvain Delcomminette

Wisdom in Aristotle: from Metaphysics to Ethics

1 Sophia as the highest science

2 Sophia and the good

Giulia De Cesaris and Caterina Pellò

In Dialogue with Perictione: Wisdom from Aristotle to the Pythagorean Pseudepigrapha

1 Wisdom according to Perictione

2 From divine science to science of the divine: Perictione, Ps.-Archytas, and the earlier tradition

3 Aristotle on wisdom, the science of being, first philosophy, and theology

mostafa najafi

Reimagining Wisdom: Falsafa&amp

TRapos

s Integration of Competing Conceptions

1 Wisdom: conceptions and contentions

1.1 Proliferation of wisdom conceptions: Islamic tradition&amp

s formative era

1.2 Wisdom and anti-wisdom: contestations among the wise

2 Forging a unified wisdom: Al-Fārābī's solution

2.1 Wisdom between truth and falsity

2.2 Poetic wisdom at the interface of logic and language

2.3 The psychological underpinnings of poetic wisdom.

3 Wisdom reimagined: concluding words

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Lisa Raphals

Mind-body Dualism, Wisdom, and the Tripartite Self in Early China

1 Mind-centred views of body, mind, and spirit

1.1 The mind as ruler of the body

1.2 Mencius on the mind

1.3 Xunzi and the hegemony of the heart-mind

1.3.1 Unnatural

1.3.2 Autonomous

1.4 Rulers and slaves in the Guodian texts

2 Tripartite, spirit-centred perspectives

2.1 The Guanzi: 'Inner Workings'

2.2. The Zhuangzi

2.3 The Huainanzi

Conclusion

Angelika Malinar

The Indifferent Spectator: Wisdom in Sāṃkhya Philosophy

1 Introduction

2 Liberating knowledge according to Sāṃkhya philosophy

3 Philosophy and the education of kings in the Arthaśāstra

4 Kings engaging with philosophical wisdom

4.1 Milindapañha: wisdom as 'cutting off' and 'radiance of knowledge'

4.2 Obtaining the 'lofty seat of wisdom' and being a distant spectator: Sāṃkhya in the Mahābhārata

Raji Steineck

Wisdom and Discernment in the Zen Buddhist Tradition

1 'If you open your mouth just a little, all life is immediately lost'

2 Zen Wisdom-the Dominant View

3 Dōgen's wisdom of the broken mirror

Abbreviations

Michael Hampe

'The More we Recognise Individual Things, the More we Recognise God'. Inference, Intuition, and Wisdom in Spinoza's Rational Mysticism

Glossary

1 Thinking about death

2 Wittgenstein and Spinoza

3 Enlightenment and rational mysticism

4 Theory and intuition

5 Spinoza's monism: count terms and mass terms

6 Scientia intuitiva and the problem of expression

7 Unity and multiplicity

Christoph von der Malsburg

The Role of Wisdom in Human Behaviour

1 Drives as schematic control of behaviour.

2 Differentiation of behaviour by learning

3 The human case

4 The web of social conventions

5 The role of wisdom

Contributors

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-124687-6

9783111246871

OCLC:

1564841957