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In Plato's Symposium Socrates says the difference between a sage and a philosopher ( Ancient Greek: φιλόσοφος, meaning lover of wisdom) was that the sage has what the philosopher seeks. Karl Ludwig Michelet wrote that "Greek religion culminated with its true god, the sage" Pierre Hadot develops this idea, stating that "the moment philosophers achieve a rational conception of God based on the model of the sage, Greece surpasses its mythical representation of its gods." Indeed, the actions of the sage are propounded to be how a god would act in the same situation.
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Several of the schools of Hellenistic philosophy have the sage as a featured figure. Horace describes the Sphairos as "Completely within itself, well-rounded and spherical, so that nothing extraneous can adhere to it, because of its smooth and polished surface." Alternatively, the sage is one who lives "according to an ideal which transcends the everyday." Among the earliest accounts of the sage begin with Empedocles' Sphairos. The term has also been used interchangeably with a 'good person' ( Ancient Greek: ἀγαθός, agathos), and a 'virtuous person' ( Ancient Greek: σπουδαῖος, spoudaios).
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"Sages" redirects here for sages in Confucianism, see Four Sages for SAGES, see Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and Study of the Astrophysics of Globular clusters in Extragalactic Systems for other uses, see Sage (disambiguation).Ī sage ( Ancient Greek: σοφός, sophos), in classical philosophy, is someone who has attained wisdom. "Sage philosophy" redirects here for another use, see African philosophy#Ethnophilosophy and philosophical sagacity.