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Philosophy – Wisdom or Technique?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2009

Anthony O'Hear
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Notice the key concepts: wonder, purification of emotion, piercing the blindness of activity, transcendent functions. There are echoes here of the Platonic doctrine of philosophy as the care of the soul, therapy, the turning of the soul from fantasy to reality. Education, says Plato (and not just philosophy), is the art of orientation, the shedding of the leaden weights which progressively weigh us down as we become more and more sunk in the material world and the world of desire, eating and similar pleasures and indulgences. All this is in the context of the Cave, and a form of vision which is to become able to bear ‘the sight of real being and reality at its most bright… which is a form of goodness’.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 65 , October 2009 , pp. 351 - 361
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2009

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