The belief that goodness has much t

The belief that goodness has much to do with smartness, suggested by Wittgenstein (see Chapter r), is not quite as novel as it might first appear. Indeed, a great many thinkers have pronounced on this issue over a long time, even though they may not have made the connection with the starkness of Wittgenstein's remark. To take an interesting example, Ashoka, the emperor of India in the third century BC and the author of numerous inscriptions on good and just behaviour, carved on durable stone tablets and pillars across the country and abroad, commented on this connection in one of his more famous inscriptions.