Thursday, October 4, 2012

Can you define wisdom?


Question


Can you define wisdom?
Is it possible to put a definition on wisdom?


Answer


To be wise is to have knowledge of the whole or the whole context. One can only be wise in regards to things andor subjects that have a context, relationship, andor function with other things andor subjects taken as a whole. So one can have wisdom about one part of a subject in relationship to another part. Examples A doctor who has a lot of experience can notice the smallest thing wrong, bug eyes, and connect it another thing, a problem with metabolism. A car mechanic can hear a small noise and realize a timing belt is going out. The greater wisdom, of course, is to have knowledge of a whole. Notice the people generally thought of as wise are those who deal with the widest wholes that humans know of. The most wise deal with either with the fundamentals of reality andor the fundamentals of human nature. Mostly this is abstract except for those who are good at the actual daily interaction of people, meaning they are good guides andor leaders of human nature in action.



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