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Ep. 42 - Intelligence, Rationality, and Wisdom

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Philosophy Is Beginning in Wonder, Wisdom Begins in Wonder

For Plato, the point of philosophy is to develop and extend that sense of wonder. Aristotle sees this more in line with curiosity, trying to figure things out. So for Plato, wonder sets you on a quest of anagogic but for Aristotle, wonder gets you to formulate questions that you then answer. That's a fundamental difference between them.

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