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only virtue can be counted on to benefit unconditionally and only vice counts as harmful in all possible circumstances.
Brad Inwood • Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Virtue, the modern mind believes, depends crucially on will and choice, whereas the underside of life stems more from external circumstances.
Martin E. P. Seligman • Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Like the Stoics and Daoists, I want to put my focus on wisdom so that a “wise agency” can emerge. This would mean people take the right action and get the right things done, in whatever domain they find themselves.
Peter Limberg • High Agency to Wise Agency
rationality;
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
a typically Greek propensity to see clarifying universals in the chaos of life.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
what the philosopher can contribute to politics is not at all the will to power, but disinterestedness.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
The writings of Plato and Aristotle are haunted by a figure who seeks wisdom of the highest things and who thereby gains practical wisdom, knowledge of how to govern. The first philosopher, Thales, fell into a well while looking at the stars, possessed by knowledge Aristotle called “wondrous, difficult and divine—but useless.” Yet Socrates fought c... See more
Zena Hitz • The Lamp Magazine | The Practical Wisdom of Eva Brann
Filosofía y Política en el Perú: Estudio del pensamiento de Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, José Carlos Mariátegui y Víctor Andrés Belaunde (Spanish Edition)
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