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Philosophical concept

Wisdom

Wisdom is an understanding of life that joins comprehension, discernment, and conduct rather than merely accumulating knowledge.

Works
355
Passages
12,551
Thinkers
53
Traditions
17

Understand uses of the concept

Wisdom is an understanding of life that joins comprehension, discernment, and conduct rather than merely accumulating knowledge.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 12,551 passages across 355 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: sagesse, sage, wisdom, sapient, σοφ

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 23 passages
  4. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  9. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  10. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 46 passages
  16. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  17. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 102 passages
  18. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 63 passages
  19. AcademicaCicero · 10 passages
  20. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  23. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  24. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  25. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 39 passages
  26. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  27. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  28. On EndsCicero · 87 passages
  29. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  30. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages