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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WISDOM?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2018

Euan Hill
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Abstract

Philosophy, by no longer performing its original therapeutic function of helping people to become wise, choosing instead to offer analysis, has left us at risk of losing the techniques which had evolved to facilitate the task of teaching wisdom throughout its history. In the process of endeavouring to re-establish Philosophy as Therapy after the war, with the aim of helping people to think for themselves rather than just study the ideas of others, Wittgenstein and Wisdom rediscovered the need for many of these techniques, especially for a way of revealing to people their underlying and unconscious assumptions.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 17 , Issue 48 , Spring 2018 , pp. 117 - 130
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2018 

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