“Genus vero philosophie, sub quo hic in toto et parte procedi…”

“Genus vero philosophie, sub quo hic in toto et parte proceditur, est morale negotium, sive ethica; quia non ad speculandum, sed ad opus inventum est totum et pars.”

— Dante Alighieri

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Title: Wikiquote: Dante Alighieri
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Now the kind of philosophy under which we proceed in the whole and in the part is moral philosophy or ethics; because the whole was undertaken not for speculation but for practice.

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Alighieri, Dante. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Dante Alighieri. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri

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