Sentence examples for conception of wisdom from inspiring English sources
The magnificent panorama provided at the beginning of the Metaphysics as gloss on the claim that all men naturally desire to know rises to and culminates in the conception of wisdom as knowledge of all things in their ultimate or first causes.
Joseph countered Pharaoh's conception of wisdom.
The path of realization based on the Mahayana conception of genuine wisdom was elaborated as the career of the bodhisattva.
On the one hand, it stands squarely upon a Mahayana Buddhist conception of enlightened wisdom as radically nondichotomous and nondual with reality, indicated with such terms as thusness, buddha-nature, and emptiness.
These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers.
Caputo explains what he sees as insufficient in the tradition of wisdom as follows: The hermeneutic conception of phronesis presupposes an existing schema, a world already in place.
Aristotle and Zagzebski would obviously reject (KLW) as the full story because they believe theoretical wisdom is another kind of wisdom, and are unwilling to accept that there is a conception of one, general, kind of wisdom.
In an influential article on Socrates' conception of the soul (one that Lovibond 1991, 35-6, for instance, treats as authoritative concerning the Greek notion of soul), Burnet claimed that when Socrates conceived of the soul as the 'seat' or bearer of wisdom and excellence of character, this was a dramatic departure from the conception of soul embedded in ordinary Greek thought and language.
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
