Greek wisdom
Ancient Mediterranean insight
Greek wisdom refers to the philosophical and practical knowledge associated with ancient Greece—the teachings of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
The phrase often invokes ideas about virtue, moderation, self-knowledge, and the examined life: The inscription "know thyself" embodies Greek wisdom.
Sometimes used more loosely for any insight that sounds classical or timeless.
- know thyselfImperative for introspection
- geometryScience of spatial relationships
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- AthenaGreek wisdom deity
good life · metaphysics · democracy · Delphi · Pythagoras · sophism · atomism · epistemology · rhetoric · stoicism · Euclid · cardinal virtues · polis · epic poetry · citizenship · Socratic method · Homer · dialectics
Greek wisdombarbarism
Savage, uncivilized behavior
anti-intellectualism · Eastern philosophy · Chinese philosophy · Indian philosophy · Buddhist enlightenment
Greek wisdomdogma
Unchallengeable official beliefs
divine revelation · mystical insight · blind faith · superstition · folk belief
Greek wisdomfolk wisdom
Traditional communal knowledge
common sense · practical knowledge · street smarts · willful ignorance · philistinism
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