What is wisdom?
In our search for a satisfying life and a world that works, we ask: What is wisdom? What is your take on this important subject?
LIVING THE QUESTIONS is a new Wisdom Page feature that invites us to visit (or revisit) significant questions, and to share our current take on them. The hope is that a kind of co-creative movement forward could arise from this — giving us if not "THE ANSWER" to a particular question, perhaps at least some hints about an answer, some fresh ways of considering the question, or some new avenues to explore. Do comment on the posted questions, and submit your ideas for new ones to cop@cop.com.
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The following items are from The Wisdom Page:
Overview of the varieties of wisdom Copthorne Macdonald discusses two varieties of Personal Wisdom, and Socio-Cultural Wisdom.
WISDOM: The Highest Aim of Life and Higher Education A text-with-slides rendering of Copthorne Macdonald's Rollins College address.
Wisdom and Wilderness by Joseph W. Meeker An excellent article on the nature of wisdom and its relationship to wilderness.
Wisdom: A First Approximation University of Saskatchewan professor Don Cochrane's views on the subject.
Playing the Wisdom Game by Copthorne Macdonald. An essay that appears in the 2006 book Living a Life of Value.
What is Wisdom? Professor Nordstrom tells us that wisdom is our way out from folly.
Introduction to Getting a Life by Copthorne Macdonald. Comments on the nature of Practical Wisdom.
Chapter 1 of Toward Wisdom More of Cop Macdonald's views on the nature of wisdom.
Living Wisdom by Troy Dunn is a thoughtful and expansive essay in PDF format that views the issue from many perspectives.
Thanks for The Wisdom Page.
I am so passionate about this question 'What is Wisdom' that I have tried to express it as best I can, and tried to start to answer it, over the years, developing a website called
www.in-love-with-wisdom.com
There I have posted a small free spiritual ebooklet I wrote in 1991 called 'Christopher and the Knowledger' that lead me to discuss global knowledge, and now, increasingly, wisdom.
I would be delighted for any feedback, either on this blogpost or on my website.
I look forward to contributing more to this page
ronyoung@in-love-with-wisdom.com
Thank you so much for providing the world the great collection of inspiring writings. You've added priceless contributions to humanity.
Wisdom is vast and at times unfathomable. Plato wrote about the soul's reincarnation (Meno) in an attempt to define wisdom. He wrote about wisdom in terms of logic and mathematics. Wisdom's source still seems beyond measure for one person's lifetime, thus, the only way to have it is to have lived many times. However, this does not necessarily mean one soul has many chronological-kinds of lifetimes, one could live many lives in a contemporary single lifespan. From birth to life there are many stages of life, and sometimes those stages seem disconnected (as might be the case with reincarnation), and other times seem inherently familiar (as might be the case with reincarnation). Nonetheless, experience is not sufficient - there must also be reflection, curiosity, maybe some eccentricities, a gathering of data, puzzling it out, and other things in a cohesive life narrative, which allows experience and knowledge to meld in such a way as to reach fertile ground. Once you've arrived at a glimmer of wisdom (as the slave boy did), you can test it out and see where it leads. What is Wisdom? I've not lived enough to answer the question. I'll get back to you when I have.
In Homer's Odyssey it is written that when Ulysses came back home after his adventures, he had to string his bow and shoot an arrow through twelve hoops to claim back his wife and his kingdom. Thus, to me:
The first part of Widom is the ability to visualize how the various aspects of our life (the hoops) actually work - ranging from the physical to the metaphysical, from the individual to the universal, the potential to the actual...
The second aspect of Wisdom is to pick up the bow, the instrument of our lives, string it, and to send an arrow through - whose trajectory connects all the various aspects (hoops) of our life into a meaningful whole.
The part where we we get back our life's partner, and our kingdom would, of course, be a bonus...
Wisdom doesn't seem to be definitively defineable.Indeed it may not be wise to do so. Besides, such a definition would generally appear to be unnecessary.
I used to think of it as a special combination of a philosophical plus prudential approach to living. Nowadays however this is criticised as very inadequate. The concept is now seen as a sort of porridge of perspectives.Perhaps no handy-handles can be found?
Meantime life continues to amble along in love and in hand with a Wisdom left undefined.
I say it can be wise for one to know not all the answers to all the questions, but to know how to find those answers. Wisdom seems to me to represent one's own position on what could be, and also the ability to convey one's position unarguably, or without error. What I mean to say, or explain, is that a wise man can never be wrong, because a truly wise man only speaks truth. That is not to say that a wise man only says things which are correct, for this term "correct" is merely a notion of what "seems" to be. A wise man does not say what is, rather, he says what he thinks is, and leaves himself open to the possibility that everything he has believed to be true, such as the world being flat, etc., could, in fact be wrong. A wise man does not say "The earth is flat." The wise man says "To me it appears that the Earth could very well be flat." In so doing, he has explained his perception of truth, that is to say, what could be, without stating any sort of absolute truth, which can at any time be disproved simply by a contrary position of another.
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