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    General Explanation in History.J. O. Wisdom - 1976 - History and Theory 15 (3):257-266.
    The covering-law model of historical explanation works only for explanation of particulars by particulars, or narrative questions and person and action questions. Wisdom suggests three other explanatory theories that may be integral to historical explanation. What are called Challengeable-cover laws, Function-type laws, and Theoretical-type explanations are introduced and their ranges with respect to covering laws described. The first type are non-trivial generalizations the historian forms where existing covering laws are irrelevant or insufficient, for isolated aspects of their subject matter. (...)
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    Moral Error Theory: History, Critique, Defence.Jeff Wisdom - 2018 - Philosophical Quarterly 68 (270):217-220.
    © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] Olson's Moral Error Theory: History, Critique, Defence has four aims. First, the book aims to provide a historical background to the development of moral error theory prior to its appearance in Mackie's article, ‘A Refutation of Morals.’ Secondly, it provides a critical look at four different versions of the queerness argument. (...)
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    Hegel's Dialectic in Historical Philosophy.J. O. Wisdom - 1940 - Philosophy 15 (59):243 - 268.
    Conflicting Systems in the History of Philosophy. Hegel's logic consists, as is well known, in a chain of categories, connected by a relation of dialectic, which proceeded from the featureless Being, Nothing, and Becoming through more important ones such as Substance, Cause, and Reciprocity to the highest category of all, the Absolute Idea. Now Hegel also pointed to an interesting correlation between the categories of his logic and the dominant concepts of those philosophies that preceded his own: that is to (...)
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    The Concept of “Phantom-Body”.J. O. Wisdom - 1953 - Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of Philosophy 7:175-179.
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    Respect for Persons, the Pleasure-Principle, and Obligation.J. O. Wisdom - 1961 - Atti Del XII Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia 7:473-479.
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    Proper‐Function Moral Realism.Jeffrey Wisdom - 2017 - European Journal of Philosophy 25 (4):1660-1674.
    A common line of thought in contemporary metaethics is that certain facts about the evolutionary history of humans make moral realism implausible. Two of the most developed evolutionary cases against realism are found in the works of Richard Joyce and Sharon Street. In what follows, I argue that a form of moral realism that I call proper-function moral realism can meet Joyce and Street's challenges. I begin by sketching the basics of proper-function moral realism. I then present what I take (...)
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    Ancient wisdom in the age of the new science: histories of philosophy in England, c. 1640-1700.Dmitri Levitin - 2015 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
    A groundbreaking, revisionist account of the importance of the history of philosophy to intellectual change - scientific, philosophical and religious - in seventeenth-century England.
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    Metaphysical Wisdom and Lifeworld: Tendencies in Research on the History of Chinese Philosophy at the Juncture of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries.Chen Weiping - 2005 - Contemporary Chinese Thought 37 (1):24-33.
  9. History of Wisdom, Ancient Greek Philosophy: Materialism versus Idealism-Books I and II.Franz J. T. Lee - 2003 - Philosophy 1.
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    Wisdom as a Meditation on Life: Spinoza on Bacon and Civil History.Jo Van Cauter - 2016 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (1):88-110.
    In letter 37 to Johannes Bouwmeester, Spinoza identifies a historiola mentis à la Bacon as an important tool for distinguishing more easily between adequate and inadequate ideas. This paper contends that Spinoza's advice is to take into account Baconian-style ‘Civil History’ as providing instructive material for contemplating the variety, complexity, and persistency of human passionate behaviour. Specifically, it argues that Baconian civil history forms an integral part of Spinoza's reflections on provisional morality. Although for Spinoza, philosophical beatitude ultimately demands understanding (...)
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    The heritage of wisdom: essays in the history of philosophy.Anthony Kenny - 1987 - New York, NY, USA: Blackwell.
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    A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy.Robert C. Solomon & Kathleen M. Higgins - 1997 - New York: Oup Usa. Edited by Kathleen Marie Higgins.
    Perfect for readers eager to acquire a basic familiarity with the history of philosophy but intimidated by the task, A Passion for Wisdom is a lively, accessible, and highly enjoyable tour of the world's great ideas.
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    Alexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History.James H. Nichols - 2007 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Nichols examines the major writings of Alexandre Kojève, and clarifies the character and brings to light the importance of his political philosophy. This is an essential assessment of Kojève which considers the works that preceded his turn to Hegel, seeks to articulate the character of his Hegelianism, and reflects in detail on the two different meanings that the end of history had in two different periods of his thought.
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    Ancient Wisdom Revived: A History of the Theosophical Movement.Wilhelm Halbfass & Bruce F. Campbell - 1981 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 101 (4):473.
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    The History of Gentile Wisdom According to R. Zadok ha-Kohen of Lublin.Yaakov Elman - 1994 - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 3 (1):153-187.
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    The theological paraphrasing of history: The Exodus tradition in the Wisdom of Solomon.Hendrik L. Bosman - 2012 - HTS Theological Studies 68 (1).
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    How history happens, or why the conventional wisdom is always wrong.John L. Casti - 2003 - Complexity 8 (6):12-16.
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    Ancient Wisdom in the age of the new science: Histories of philosophy in England, c. 1640–1700. by Dmitri Levitin. Oxford University Press, 2015, xii + 670 ISBN: 9781107513747. pbk. £26.99. [REVIEW]Susan James - 2018 - European Journal of Philosophy 26 (1):676-678.
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    Mystery & intelligibility: history of philosophy as pursuit of wisdom.Jeffrey Dirk Wilson (ed.) - 2021 - Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
    Contributors consider the limits of our knowledge of a world of unlimited knowability by examining philosophical thought from the Classical Greeks to the present.
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  20. Wisdom Literature: A Theological History.Leo G. Perdue - 2007
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    Pictorial History of Philosophy.Wisdom of the West. [REVIEW]J. H. R., Dagobert D. Runes, Bertrand Russell, Paul Foulkes, Edward Wright & John Piper - 1960 - Journal of Philosophy 57 (11):365.
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    The image of wisdom and the wise man in the history of European philosophy.Tatjana Semane - 1995 - History of European Ideas 20 (4-6):969-972.
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    The relations between wisdom and science: illustrations of the history of a distinction.Francis Knight Ballaine - 1936 - New York,: New York.
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    Crazy Wisdom.Wes Nisker - 1998 - Ten Speed Press.
    A mixture of facts and philosophy. Jean-Paul Sartre, William Blake, lao Tzu, Groucho Marx, Albert Einstein - hold forth on poetry religion, quantum physics.
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    The Pursuit of Wisdom: A History of Philosophy.Joseph Ransdell - 1976 - Intelman Books.
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    Power and wisdom: Toward a history of social behavior.Akop P. Nazaretyan - 2003 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 33 (4):405–425.
    Cross-disciplinary studies carried out lately by Russian scholars discovered a causal relationship between the three variables: technological potential, cultural regulation quality, and social sustainability. The patterns called techno-humanitarian balance law, states that the higher production and war technologies' power, the more refined the behaviorregulation means that are required for self-preservation of the society. The article shows that the law has controlled social selection for all of human history and prehistory, discarding unbalanced social organisms, as far as they could not cope (...)
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    Where is the wisdom? I – A conceptual history of evidence‐based medicine.Peter C. Wyer & Suzana A. Silva - 2009 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 15 (6):891-898.
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    Sacramental Wisdom: Humilitatio, Eruditio, Exercitatio in the Scholastics and Today.O. P. Sr Albert Marie Surmanski - 2023 - Nova et Vetera 21 (4):1391-1413.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Sacramental Wisdom:Humilitatio, Eruditio, Exercitatio in the Scholastics and TodaySr. Albert Marie Surmanski O.P.IntroductionThe relationship between human nature and the sacraments is often characterized in a way that takes away from the beauty and power of the sacraments. Sacraments are sometimes viewed today as something basically irrelevant to human life, an interesting spiritual "option" for those who find comfort in ritual. This view leads to a sacramental practice that (...)
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    An Arab Philosophy of History.Translated and arranged by C. Issawi. (Wisdom of the East) (John Murray, London. 1950. Pp. 190. 6s.). [REVIEW]A. S. Tritton - 1952 - Philosophy 27 (101):183-.
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    The wisdom of the world: the human experience of the universe in Western thought.Rémi Brague - 2003 - Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.
    When the ancient Greeks looked up into the heavens, they saw not just sun and moon, stars and planets, but a complete, coherent universe, a model of the Good that could serve as a guide to a better life. How this view of the world came to be, and how we lost it (or turned away from it) on the way to becoming modern, make for a fascinating story, told in a highly accessible manner by Remi Brague in this wide-ranging (...)
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    Dmitri Levitin. Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science: Histories of Philosophy in England, c. 1640–1700. xxi + 670 pp., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. £89.99. [REVIEW]Dirk van Miert - 2016 - Isis 107 (4):837-839.
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  32. Wisdom in Bonaventure's Hexaëmeron: philosophical problems, theological solutions.Benjamin Winter - 2025 - Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
    Guiding readers through vision one of Collationes in Hexaëmeron, Benjamin Winter argues that Bonaventure's rejection of certain philosophical errors ought to be understood within the context of the virtuous person's journey to wisdom. Propositions such as the eternity of the world, the unicity of the intellect, and fated necessity are not variables in a zero-sum equation "balanced out" by truths of faith. Instead, Bonaventure sees these propositions as opportunities to reflect charitably on nature and grace, emphasizing that just as (...)
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    Dmitri Levitin. Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science: Histories of Philosophy in England, c. 1640–1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xxii+646. £93.00. [REVIEW]Mogens Lærke - 2018 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 8 (1):209-213.
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    Wisdom tradition: cultural creativity and social change.Sebastian Velassery & K. Gopinathan Pillai (eds.) - 2019 - New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company Pvt..
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    Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms.J. Elster & H. Landemore (eds.) - 2012 - Cambridge University Press.
    James Madison wrote, 'Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob'. The contributors to this volume discuss and for the most part challenge this claim by considering conditions under which many minds can be wiser than one. With backgrounds in economics, cognitive science, political science, law and history, the authors consider information markets, the internet, jury debates, democratic deliberation and the use of diversity as mechanisms for improving collective decisions. At the same (...)
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    Wisdom in the Open Air: The Norwegian Roots of Deep Ecology.Peter Reed & David Rothenberg - 1992 - Univ of Minnesota Press.
    "Wisdom in the Open Air" traces the Norwegian roots of the strain of thinking called "deep ecology" - the search for the solutions to environmental problems by examining the fundamental tenets of our culture. Although Arne Naess coined the term in the 1970s, the insights of deep ecology actually reflect a whole tradition of thought that can be seen in the history of Norwegian culture, from ancient mountain myths to the radical ecoactivism of today. Beginning with an introduction to (...)
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  37. Wisdom and Analytical Philosophy.Jonathan Bennett - 1982 - Analyse & Kritik 4 (1):98-101.
    Rorty's profound and challenging critique of contemporary philosophy is in several ways somewhat unfair. Analytic philosophy can contribute towards 'wisdom' in a reasonable sense of the term, though not in Rorty's narrow sense; and his contrast between 'sophist' and 'sage', with the latter understood in Plato's way, is also too constricting. Also, some contemporary 'analytic' work in the 'history of philosophy', so called, is not invalidated by Rorty's strictures - especially his implied accusation that we shan't be interested in (...)
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    From Witchcraft to Wisdom: A History of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the British Isles.Richard Barnett - 2009 - Annals of Science 66 (4):561-563.
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    Wisdom and Philosophy.Martin A. Bertman - 1988 - Idealistic Studies 18 (2):173-179.
    Sooner or later, a discussion of wisdom and philosophy brings to mind Socrates as somehow both wise and ignorant. It is not implausible to say that for Socrates the greatness of philosophy is its capacity to free the individual from fate or circumstance and thereby to destroy the two great fears of mankind with which tragedy was unable to deal: the fear of death and the fear of the loss of love or honor.
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    Words of wisdom: philosophy's most important quotations and their meanings.Gareth Southwell - 2010 - London: Quercus.
    'Words of Wisdom' is an anthology of history's most memorable, uplifting or thought-provoking quotations from the greatest philosophers who have ever lived. Each of the 360 quotations is accompanied by a brief essay that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the quotation.
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  41. Wisdom Speaking: Language and Society in Giambattista Vico.Michael Mooney - 1982 - Dissertation, Columbia University
    Alongside the tradition in Western thought which glories in logic, metaphysics, and science , a more variegated tradition of thought is to be found--that of rhetoric and of "wisdom"--whose focus is on the workings of human society and on language as its bond and instrument of change. Wisdom Speaking is the attempt to read Vico within this tradition and to see what it became in his hands. ;From implacable foes to cautious allies, science and wisdom have a (...)
     
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    Wisdom's little sister: studies in medieval & renaissance Jewish political thought.Abraham Melamed - 2012 - Boston: Academic Studies Press.
    "As a recently established field of Jewish thought, Jewish political philosophy has made increasingly frequent appearances in recently edited histories of Jewish philosophy. Following the pioneering efforts of Leo Strauss, Ralph Lerner and Daniel Elazar, among others, Jewish political philosophy gained its proper place alongside ethics and metaphysics in the study of the history of Jewish philosophy. This volume is another manifestation of this welcomed development. Consisting of selected papers published in English over the last thirty years, Wisdom's Little (...)
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    Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics.Wm Theodore de Bary (ed.) - 2011 - Cambridge University Press.
    _Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics_ is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asian civilization and culture. Essays address frequently read, foundational texts in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, as well as early modern fictional classics and nonfiction works of the seventeenth century. Building strong links between these writings and the critical traditions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, this volume shows the vital role of the classics in the shaping of Asian history and in the (...)
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    Ḥikmat va siyāsat: tārīkh-i shafāhī-i zindagī va ās̲ār-i Duktur Sayyid Ḥusayn Naṣr = Wisdom and politics: an oral history of life and work of Dr. SeyedHossein Nasr.Seyyed Hossein Nasr - 2015 - [Tihrān]: Sāzmān-i Asnād va Kitābkhānah-i Millī-i Īrān. Edited by Ḥusayn Dihbāshī.
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  45. Book Review: Wisdom Literature: A Theological History. [REVIEW]William P. Brown - 2008 - Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 62 (2):206-208.
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    The wisdom of language: an enquiry into the origins, meaning and present-day relevance of ‘responsibility’.Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo - 2024 - History of European Ideas 50 (2):298-316.
    In this article I endeavour to clarify the meaning of ‘responsibility’, which in the last decades has become a cornerstone of the ethical and political debate. To this end, I carry out an etymological enquiry into this notion with respect to antique and modern European languages. The thesis I argue is that language evidences a unique capacity to cherish, nurture, and foresee with a touch of wisdom an inexhaustible repertoire of existential meanings, which take the stage in human endeavours. (...)
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    (1 other version)The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought.Teresa Lavender Fagan (ed.) - 2003 - Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.
    When the ancient Greeks looked up into the heavens, they saw not just sun and moon, stars and planets, but a complete, coherent universe, a model of the Good that could serve as a guide to a better life. How this view of the world came to be, and how we lost it on the way to becoming modern, make for a fascinating story, told in a highly accessible manner by Rémi Brague in this wide-ranging cultural history. Before the Greeks, (...)
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    Divine Love and Wisdom.George F. Dole (ed.) - 2003 - Swedenborg Foundation Publishers.
    _Divine Love and Wisdom_ has been called the most profound work of the Enlightenment scientist and seer Emanuel Swedenborg. It demonstrates how God’s love, wisdom, and humanity are reflected in creation and in ourselves, and suggests that the act of Creation is not a mystery of the past, but a miracle ongoing in every instant of the present. Like a blueprint of things unseen, _Divine Love and Wisdom_ makes visible the hidden design of the universe, as well as the (...)
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    Reexamining love of wisdom: philosophical desire from Socrates to Nietzsche.Juan Carlos Flores - 2016 - Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books.
    What is philosophy? Why does it matter? How have philosophy and its relation to religion and science changed from the ancient to the medieval and modern periods and beyond? What are the central philosophical ideas, from Socrates to Nietzsche? Reexamining Love of Wisdom addresses these questions. It offers a new perspective by organizing the material under the theme of philosophical desire and shows the timeless importance of philosophy understood as the love of wisdom. Flores provides an historical introduction (...)
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    Debatable wisdom.Paweł Więckowski - 2015 - Warszawa: Warsaw School of Economics.
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