This is most obvious in the case of those who cannot pursue wisdom for themselves.
But even those who can pursue wisdom must first be raised well and must later meet with tolerance, which philosophers do not often receive.
In ethics, the Republic's main practical lesson is that one should, if one can, pursue wisdom and that if one cannot, one should follow the wisest guides one can find.
It follows that the items on the first list are neither good nor bad in themselves (281d), and that the principal good to pursue is wisdom.
Douze and Rosa-Salas describe Mami Wata as being "called upon by those pursuing wealth, wisdom, emotional guidance, and sexual liberation.
The few who are endowed with the capacity for the highest, demonstrative knowledge are under a divine legal obligation to pursue the highest wisdom, which is philosophy, and they need not constantly adjust its certain conclusions to what theologians claim to be the correct interpretation of the divine law.
Yet, we pursue war over wisdom.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, pursuing two, seemingly opposed objectives simultaneously often produces a better outcome than choosing one option over another.
Eisner knows that some of her readers might have doubts about the wisdom pursuing Obama's legacy, which only recently included a ten-year military aid package (larger than any the U.S. has ever given to any country).
He concluded his remarks by a pledge to follow the South whatever happened: "It is not for me to indicate the path she [the South] may, in her wisdom, pursue; but, sir,... my whole heart is with her, and she will find me treading it with undivided affections".
