Top Research Papers on Wisdom

This chapter introduces the volume by arguing that the study of biblical wisdom is in the midst of a potential paradigm shift, as interpreters are beginning to reconsider the relationship between the concept of wisdom in the Bible and the category Wisdom Literature. This offers an opportunity to explore how the two have been related in the past, in the history of Jewish and Christian interpretation, how they are connected in the present, as three competing primary approaches to Wisdom study have developed, and how they could be treated in the future, as new possibilities for understanding wisd...

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This research aims at encouraging the academic community to broaden the body of knowledge by bridging the gap between IT (social networks), finance (crowdfunding) philosophy, and cultural distances by bridged thegap between IT and classical philosophy.

This research aims at encouraging the academic community to broaden the body of knowledge by bridging the gap between IT (social networks), finance (crowdfunding) philosophy, and cultural distances by bridging the gap between IT (social networks), finance (crowdfunding) philosophy, and cultural distances.

What is wisdom? What does a wise person know? Can a wise person know how to act and live well without knowing the whys and wherefores of his own action? How is wisdom acquired? This Element addresses questions regarding the nature and acquisition of wisdom by developing and defending a skill theory of wisdom. Specifically, this theory argues that if a person S is wise, then (i) S knows that overall attitude success contributes to or constitutes well-being; (ii) S knows what the best means to achieve well-being are; (iii) S is reliably successful at acting and living well (in light of what S kn...

The Book of Wisdom is considered a coherent text characterised by genre syncretism. This article aims to examine the praise of wisdom in the Book of Wisdom for its persuasive functions. The encomium was used in the analysis as a typical genre of epideictic rhetoric. The text of the praise was analysed from the perspective of the features distinguishing this genre and determining its underlying structure. The analysis led to the conclusion that the author used the possibilities of the genre to teach the recipients what wisdom they should seek and to encourage them to take actions to achieve it....

Foreword Monika Ardelt Part I. Theories of Wisdom across Time, Culture, and Peoples: 1. Wisdom in history James E. Birren and Cheryl M. Svensson 2. Cultural foundations of wisdom: an integrated developmental approach Masami Takahashi and Willis F. Overton 3. Philosophical theories of wisdom Lisa M. Osbeck and Daniel N. Robinson 4. From the inside out: people's implicit theories of wisdom Susan Bluck and Judith Gluck 5. The psychology of wisdom: theoretical and empirical challenges Ute Kunzmann and Paul B. Baltes Part II. The Development of Wisdom across the Lifespan: 6. Young and growing wiser...

This chapter discusses life within the Akhanda Worldview, spontaneous order, Edge of Chaos and Artificial Life as missing ideas in Understanding Life.

Though she does not put it in these terms, Specker Sullivan’s (2022) article is an important and timely reminder that bioethics is a branch of philosophy; that philosophy is, literally, philo-sophy—the love of wisdom; that wisdom cannot be crystallized in algorithms; and that (as articulated particularly in Buddhism and Eastern Christianity) there is a crucial circularity: Wise thinking results from wise living and wise living results from wise thinking. Modern bioethics is embarrassed by talk of wisdom. Wisdom seems suspiciously religious, and is hard to define, locate, measure, and teach. It...

Wisdom teeth, officially known as “third molars,” are one to four permanent teeth that come in at the ends of the rows of upper and lower teeth.

At the angle of "loving wisdom",the premise of comprehending philosophy is what is "wisdom" must be made clear.Wisdom itself should also be understood and grasped at the angle of history,semantics and the relation of knowledge,talent and wisdom.Wisdom is not philosophy,and philosophic wisdom is different from commonsensible and scientific wisdom.Philosophic wisdom is "the great wisdom",the survival wisdom,the "acid" wisdom and the spiritual horizon.Based on the fact of "wisdom is lacked","the restoration of wisdom" and "the returning to the root of philosophic wisdom" should be returned to the...

ABSTRACT While there have been many advances in the psychology of wisdom in the last 30 years, mainstream research has yet to take into serious account the role of religion in developing wisdom. Instead, the majority of research has focused on the influence of age or life experience. To examine the relative contributions of faith, age, and personal wisdom to participants understanding of how wisdom develops, the narratives of 16 participants, 8 scoring high on the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale and 8 scoring low, from 2 age cohorts (18–25 and 60–85) and 4 religious backgrounds (Atheist, Buddhi...

British labor historians carry in their heads and into their research a very heavy historiographical burden—a set of major questions which have dominated the field for a long time and a related set of model answers and analyses. These questions and proposed solutions were put forth in the first instance by social and political theorists, ranging from Marx and Engels in the nineteenth century to Lenin, the Webbs, and more recent theorists like Neil Smelser in the twentieth century. A generation of brilliant social historians, including Eric Hobsbawm, Edward Thompson, Royden Harrison, and others...

The way in Daoism by Laozi speaks for the main theme of the work.It designates the objects,accounts for the conceptual instrument,clarifies the horizons,and points to the approach to life.The way is put in the prelude of Daoism,to serve as a window of the wisdom.

Abstract Several psychological theories and models of wisdom have been developed. Despite converging trend from different theories and models in the understanding of wisdom, intervention plans or attempts to facilitate wisdom have been meager. In this study, different components of the MORE Life Experience Model of Wisdom were taken as intervention targets, and these components were targeted through mindfulness training, journal writing, narrative simulation, and case discussion on leadership virtues. The basic purpose was to seek the answer for the possibility of development of wisdom in indi...

Analysing the relationships between wisdom and time is increasingly becoming an important and interesting issue. The purpose of the study is empirical verification of the relationship between wisdom and the five categories of the temporal perspective: the positive past (PP), negative past (NP), hedonistic present (HP), fatalistic present (FP) and the future (F). It has been assumed that wisdom will positively correlate with the combination of three dimensions considered the balanced time perspective (past-positive, present-hedonistic, and future) and negatively correlated with the temporal pro...

“Where shall Wisdom be found,” asks Job (28:12), “and where is the place of understanding?” It is Divine Wisdom which is meant here, and understanding of that Wisdom. According to Biblical tradition, this question is the important one, much more so than the speculative question: What exactly is Divine Wisdom, or Sophia. In the book of Job it is stated that Wisdom cannot be bought – that “gold and crystal can’t equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. . . . The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold” (Job 28:17, 19) – and it is no...

This article analyzes the definitions and basic features of the wisdom library and the wisdom service and expounds the significance of the wisdom library in the construction of the wisdom city.

Heterogeneity in how practical wisdom is understood and applied in terms of associated virtues is uncovered and a need to examine the role of culture in mediating how virtues are conceptualised and how they are expressed and experienced by diverse groups of people is suggested.

Those who pass over female counsel in the higher echelons of judicial power miss opportunities to brief some outstanding advocates, artificially limiting their field of choice, writes the Honourable Justice Melissa Perry, Justice of the Federal Court.

An introduction to wisdom of crowds in the Web, the long tail of web content, and the bias involved in the generation of user generated content (UGC), which implies that most of the wisdom comes from a few users.

If Emerson was correct that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” then the mind of the Wisdom of Solomon's author may be considered both supple and expansive, since an ongoing theme of scholarship on the book has been the effort to reconcile in one way or another its real or seeming inconsistencies. The field has tacitly agreed to categorize the Wisdom of Solomon as a wisdom book, which in some ways seems obvious, not least because of the broad hint offered by its Greek title.The title found in the Septuagint actually provides two hints: the word “wisdom” itself, and its at...

This chapter analyzes the wisdom tradition in the biblical Book of Proverbs, which goes back around the third century BCE. Wisdom emerged prior to the creation of the world, before the universe had taken on its final form. The chapter emphasizes that Wisdom is to be understood as a person and even enthroned on a cloud throne in heaven. But in contrast to Proverbs, Wisdom comes forth from the mouth of God and is obviously God's word, which is nevertheless interpreted as a person, since she lives in heaven, sits on a throne, compasses the heavenly and earthly vaults, and rules over the land, sea...

What follows is derived mainly from the traditions of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Zen and Hinduism, with a focus on Eastern and for the most part ancient sources.

Ideal classroom should be the stage of teacher-student interaction and soul dialogue, the journey of exploring and discovering knowledge, the paradise of enjoying success and experiencing pleasure, and also the fertile soil of transcending knowledge and generating wisdom.

New research shows that women are five times more likely to be promoters of their organisations when females comprise more than 25 per cent of the executive team. And when it comes to gender equity, how leaders talk and act can really make a difference, writes Kathryn Fagg, a member of the Reserve Bank of Australia board and a non-executive director of a number of companies.

A dear doctor friend, with whom I made the Jungian journey in the early nineties, congratulated a female colleague upon her sixtieth birthday, by informing her blithely that she was now a Crone. Weeks later she still hasn't forgiven him. A 'Crone' in Jungian terms refers to the archetype of woman wisdom. This year, before the column is printed I too, will have crossed over to the other side. On reading aloud to my husband an article about middle-aged women, I was assured I was no longer middle-aged! (He also protests, whenever I look forward to grandchildren, that he is not sleeping with a gra...

Lawyer, prodemocracy campaigner, leading activist in the Pakistani women's movement and international champion of human rights Hina Jilani speaks about the fundamental importance of protecting human rights defenders on the ground.

In this paper, I examine the debate about existence between deflationist analytic accounts and the ‘thicker’ conception used by Aquinas when speaking of esse. I argue that the way one evaluates the debate will depend on background philosophical assumptions and that reflection on those assumptions could constitute an account of theoretical wisdom

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To understand better how age-related physical qualities affect age stereotyping, this research investigated the social judgments young adult listeners make when they hear the voices of younger, middle-aged, and older adult speakers. Ninety-six listeners judged 24 speakers (22-79 years in age) reading a content-neutral passage. The listeners rated each speaker on scales reflecting character traits, vocal characteristics, and social affordances. Consistent with traditional age stereotypes, listeners judged older speakers to be less powerful and less engaged than younger speakers. However, even s...

A diversity of cultural, economic and social factors influence our professional work as psychotherapists, and hardly anything we do with our patients is not dependent upon society’s political and moral choices. Moreover, what can be regarded as wisdom is difficult to agree upon, more so for group analysts. It must be felt wise, maybe more easily seen at a distance, and best found by asking men or women, in whom we trust. This article will explore fundamental ideas and assumptions regarding the art of helping patients by psychotherapy. The focus is on group analytic psychotherapy and the use of...

This article surveys Lonergan’s transposition of wisdom from Aquinas. While the latter contained metaphysical and epistemological aspects, Lonergan attempts to provide an additional type of wisdom upon which the principles of the two aspects are grounded. In addition, the article addresses the natural and supernatural forms of wisdom in Lonergan’s thinking. Finally, while Frederick Crowe refers to the ‘strange disappearance’ of wisdom explicitly from Lonergan’s later writing, especially Method in Theology, it is argued that the function of wisdom not only remains but permeates it. 1

In today's complex clinical environments, it is nursing that converts raw science into practical care and the effectiveness of treatment depends on the balance between technical competence and compassionate care.

Just as a snake sheds its old skin, the Korean Journal of Urology (KJU) in 2013 plans to mature with an upgraded home page and improved contents, thus aspiring to become one of the best international journals in the field of urology.

Sir, in these democratic days, any investigation into the trustworthiness and peculiarities of popular judgments is of interest.

The paper explores the discovery of wisdom in weakness, through a shift from anguish over theodicy to an acceptance of challenging circumstances as granting privileged access to the deepest truths of Christianity. It begins with a novelistic narrative of a spiritual journey taken by St Francis of Assissi, which sets the agenda. The topics then covered include: human creatureliness, the wisdom of the cross and the wisdom of apatheia (passionlessness). Its climax is a reflection on 2 Corinthians 4.7–10, originally composed for the L’Arche communities.

There is a permanent tension between the requirements of substantive goodness or wisdom and those of formal legitimacy in public decision-making. This article charts the various attempts to reconcile the two requirements within decision rules. First, the history of decision rules from medieval times to the 19th century is briefly reviewed. Second, it is shown that the most popular contemporary attempt to justify a decision principle in epistemic terms, based on Condorcet’s famous Jury Theorem, does not actually support democracy. Finally, it is argued that the contemporary theorists of deliber...

O ne day in the fall of 1906, the British scientist Francis Galton left his home in the town of Plymouth and headed for a country fair. Galton was 85-years-old and beginning to feel his age, but he was still brimming with curiosity that had won him renown—and notoriety—for his work on statistics and the science of heredity. And on that particular day, what Galton was curious about was live stock. So begins the first paragraph of a fascinating book, The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki (2005). As we learn in the following pages, Galton, in his visit to the fair, was captivated by a weight-...

Wisdom with creativity-creativity with wisdom is explored through discussion of Parse's humanbecoming teaching-learning model and Laird Hamilton's life lessons learned from surfing, which he termed wisdom of the wave.

In June 2009 the New Teacher Project released its latest report, The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness (Weisberg, Sexton, Mulhern, & Keeling, 2009). Published a few months earlier, Larry Cuban's Hugging the Middle: How Teachers Teach in an Era of Testing and Accountability (2009), updates his landmark historical study of teaching practice, How Teachers Taught (1993). These two pieces, read side by side, high-light the challenges to improve teaching practice on a large scale. Taken together, they bring to bear economic and histori...

Sufi authors, such as Abū Naṣr al-Sarrāj (d. 378/998) and Ruzbihan Baqlī (d. 606/1209), were concerned to explain the shaṭḥiyyāt, often translated as “ecstatic utterances”, of earlier mystics and defend them against the condemnation they received from those who had neither the experience nor the purview to understand them. Among the shaṭḥiyyāt explained by these two authors are a number of the most infamous utterances of Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī. Yet the controversial speech of Abū Yazīd (or Bāyazīd) appears not to have been limited to that which he uttered in a state of ecstasy, nor were those w...

A senior nurse from a mental health unit who has been suspended from duty over allegations of misconduct has asked a lawyer to represent her at her disciplinary hearing.

"Eat, drink and be merry, {or tomorrow thou diets!" To tell you how to do so, there are articles and books galore—more than on any other aspect of food. So you can definitely find something to your taste. The Children of Affluence do not wish to look too 'prosperous'; but their question "What should I do?" leads to answers from many quarters—all expert—and to a prosperous 'dietary industry'. That in the U.S., for instance, grosses around a biliion dollars a year. Before describing Gatty's interesting and scientifically-based book, with its many practical suggestions which strike a responsive c...

Anyone who preaches according to the lectionary knows that texts from the book of Isaiah come up frequently. According to my count, the Gospel of Luke leads the lectionary listings with 75 texts, followed by Matthew and Isaiah, each of which has 60. Since Isaiah continues to be of such importance for the church’s preaching and teaching, a fresh commentary on that prophet will be greeted with interest.

Introduction Whether we are embarking on a journey to building a sustainable environment or developing a strategy in any context, a key place to begin is to ask, “What is the purpose of that environment?” In the context of this presentation, the context is Education, let’s say tertiary education specifically. So having established our context and the purpose of tertiary education what are the elements we need to consider and how do we ensure their sustainability? Sustainable environments in Education requires leaders with courage and a common vision to champion the implementation of clear focu...

In this edition, Vickers and colleagues give details of this 15-year trial which was to involve 22 000 postmenopausal women being treated with placebo, estrogen alone or combined HRT for 10 years with 5 years of further follow-up, and say it is unlikely that there will ever be a long-term Level 1 trial of combined H RT.

In the beginning, everything was perfect. We come into this world with the memory of this perfection imprinted in our heart. It maintains the connexion with the spirit. The experiences of this world can darken the recollection, can shadow the knowledge of good, and we need wisdom in order to always perceive it. As Soloviov put it, Good is self justified and offers a meaning to our purpose here, in the absence of which we cannot live to our true potential. The conscience, that is pure knowledge, implies a clear distinction of good; real wisdom presumes an accomplishment into reality. What is re...

The title The date and authorship of the book The unity of the book The purpose of the book Language and literary style Key ideas The promise of immortality In praise of wisdom Divine wisdom in history The evils of idolatry The pattern of divine justice.

After raising three children to adulthood, my husband and I were sharing more time together, and we believed that we would have. “money in the bank” some day in the not too distant future. “Won't it be great when we're retired?” became a frequent sentence in our conversations. Then, an unforgettable year arrived and changed everything.