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Title: THE REDISCOVERY OF WISDOM
FROM HERE TO ANTIQUITY IN QUEST OF SOPHIA
By: David Conway
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0333747119
ISBN 13: 9780333747117
Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 31 July, 2000
Pages: 206
Description: By reconstructing it and tracing its vicissitudes, David Conway rehabilitates a time-honoured conception of philosophy, originating in Plato and Aristotle, which makes theoretical wisdom its aim.
Synopsis: By reconstructing it and tracing its vicissitudes, David Conway rehabilitates a time-honoured conception of philosophy, originating in Plato and Aristotle, which makes theoretical wisdom its aim. Wisdom is equated with possessing a demonstrably correct understanding of why the world exists and has the broad character it does. Adherents of this conception maintained the world to be the demonstrable creation of a divine intelligence in whose contemplation supreme human happiness resides. Their claims are defended against various latter day scepticisms.
Illustrations: biography
Publication: UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Returns: Returnable
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