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The wise man therefore must not only know the
conclusions that follow from his first principles, but also have a true conception of
those principles themselves. Hence Wisdom must be a combination of Intelligence and
Scientific Knowledge1: it must be a
consummated knowledge2
of the most exalted3 objects. For it is absurd to think that Political
Science or Prudence is the loftiest kind of knowledge, inasmuch as man is not the highest
thing in the world.
1 See 6.1, 2.
2 Literally ‘knowledge having as it were a head,’ a phrase copied from Plato, Plat. Gorg. 505d.
3 See 7.4, 5, and, for the technical sense of τίμιος, Bk. 1.12.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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