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Philosophical concept

Human wisdom

In Plato’s Apology, Socrates says human wisdom is worth little and that the wisest person recognizes the limits of his own knowledge.

Works
195
Passages
1,530
Thinkers
41
Traditions
14

Understand uses of the concept

In Plato’s Apology, Socrates says human wisdom is worth little and that the wisest person recognizes the limits of his own knowledge.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,530 passages across 195 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: sagesse humaine, human wisdom, ignorance, ἀμαθ, οὐκ οἶδα

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. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  9. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  16. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  17. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  18. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  22. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  23. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  24. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  25. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  26. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  27. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  28. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  29. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  30. Hymn to ZeusCleanthes · 1 passages