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What, exactly, does the wisdom of which philosophy is the love include?

Well, it certainly includes a critically reflective understanding of authentic existence and therefore a metaphysical understanding of self, others, and the whole that is theoretically true and an ethical understanding of how one is to act and what one is to do that is practically true.

But is this all that wisdom includes?

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But what if the wisdom that is philosophy's object, or objective, includes a critically reflective understanding of all that we necessarily presuppose-not only in existing as human beings simply as such, but also in thinking, saying, and doing any of the many different kinds of things that we ordinarily think, say, and do in understanding ourselves and leading our lives in all the various settings in which we actually Jivelive? Clearly, on this that supposition, there would be no need to explain why the wisdom philosophy loves also includes the analysis both of meaning and of all the various kinds of meaning. Well, it certainly includes a critically reflective understanding of authentic existence and therefore a metaphysical understanding of self, others, and the whole that is theoretically true and an ethical understanding of how one is to act and what one is to do that is practically true._._

31 October 1998