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...

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.

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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 it that makes someone wise, or one person wiser than another? I argue that wisdom consists in knowledge of how to live well, and that this knowledge of how to live well is constituted by various further kinds of knowledge. One concern for this view is that knowledge is not needed for wisdom but rather some state short of knowledge, such as having rational or justified beliefs about various topics. Another concern is that the emphasis on knowing how to live well fails to do justice to the ancient tradition of ‘theoretical wisdom’. I address both of these concerns in filling out the acco...

English translation © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Chinese original: Feng Qi, “Zhihui,” Zhexue pinglun (Philosophical Discussions) 10, no. 5 (1947). The author’s name was given as “Feng Baolin” in the original publication. The end of section IV and all of section V of the original essay have been omitted here. Translated by Jeffrey Keller. Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 42, no. 3, Spring 2011, pp. 8–51. © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN 1097–1467/2011 $9.50 + 0.00. DOI 10.2753/CSP1097-1467420301

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....

As firms desire to stay competitive, many of them have recently opened their innovation to tap into external sources (mostly consumers) and to export ideas for the sake of raise in profits and talents. For this purpose, several open innovation models with impressive success stories have emerged. On the other hand, as open innovation promise benefits, the tools of open innovation are destructive if they are not also used to support internal sources as industrial design and overall strategic goal. This study aim to provide first, a critical review of the rudiments on open innovation models (conn...

Abstract things, being universals, are often better comprehended than things applied (n. 228). Abuse. Abuse of rationality and freedom (n. 607). Aconites. Origin of aconites (n. 339). Acts. Acts of the body contain in them all the prior things from which they exist (n. 277, 278). Action and Reaction. Action derives its esse from love, its quality from intelligence (n. 406). In life alone there is action; reaction is caused by the action of life (n. 68). In things greatest and least of the universe, both living and dead, there is action and reaction (n. 263). Without reaction, action would ceas...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

“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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

This book explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on religion, skepticism, and literature. Melville’s work is an example of how romantic literature fills the interpretive lacuna left by contemporary theology. This book argues that attending to Melville’s engagement with the wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) can help us understand a paradox at the heart of American modernity: the simultaneous displacement and affirmation of biblical...

This article is the first interdisciplinary study of excavated early modern lute, a paste that alchemists wrapped around vessels, contextualising its relevance for the history of science. We explore the material epistemology of the alchemical laboratory by opening a conversation between archaeological sciences and the history of the body, medicine, and science. In an age that valued embodied epistemologies, we argue, medicine mattered for cultures of making and affected alchemists’ material practices. This article combines the scientific analysis of luted glass remains from the sixteenth cen...

The the house of wisdom is universally compatible with any devices to read, and is available in the authors' book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly.

Chapter three addresses the texts of the Apocrypha related to Jewish wisdom. In ancient Israel wisdom was associated with Proverbs and the education of elite males, especially scribes. But there were important developments in wisdom, each phase expanding on the previous one without rendering it obsolete. The wisdom texts of the Apocrypha are analyzed both in terms of how they fit within the earlier history of wisdom genres, and how they reflect the changes of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Theological themes such as revelation are expanded within these texts, and social issues such as gend...

This chapter introduces the reader to future discounting and some received wisdom. The received wisdom about rational planning tends to assume that it is irrational to have near‐biased preferences (i.e., preferences for lesser goods now compared to greater goods further in the future).Thechapter describes these preferences by introducing the reader to value functions. Value functions are then used to model different kinds of distant future temporal discounting (e.g., hyperbolic, exponential, absolute). Finally, the chapter makes a distinction between temporal discounting and risk discounting. ...

Laurita M. (Laurie) Hack, DPT, PhD, MBA, FAPTA, has contributed to the physical therapy profession as an educator, researcher, and academic leader.

In the section of Proverbs that we read for today, the Lord calls us to listen and act on His invitation to come to His table. This invitation comes in many forms." Posting about God's gift of wisdom from In All Things an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation. http://inallthings.org/ways-of-wisdom/

. Six authors tell their stories from their encounters with the famous combinatorial game Wythoff Nim and its sequences, including a short survey on exactly covering systems.

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H OW may we truly apply to the Blessed Virgin all that is said of Wisdom in the Sapiential Books? In answering this question we are attempting no innovation. This will be evident from the constant use made of the Doctors of the Church. In composing this study, whose main purpose is to assemble a certain amount of pertinent quotations relating to the Mother of God as Wisdom, we have been prompted rather by the miseries of our time which indicate more than ever our need to keep our eyes steadily fixed upon the most outstanding manifestations of the Wisdom an.d Mercy of God. Those texts which the...

Viewing wisdom as a capacity for synthetic understanding, this book argues for the need for philosophy, even at a time when all of us have much to learn from the sciences.

The current study in this issue of The Journal may not have the same far-reaching impact, but the potential for advancement of the understanding of pulmonary vascular disease related to systemic sclerosis (SSc) is significant.

This paper describes the concept of wisdom networks, overviews some related intelligent networks and proposes the wisdom network, and the analysis of wisdom node is outlined and the architecture of wisdom network is proposed.

English translation © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Chinese original: Feng Qi, “Zhihui de tansuo: Zhihui shuo san pian daolun,” first published in Zhihui de tansuo (Explore wisdom) (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 1994). Later, it was included in the first volume of Feng Qi wenji (The Collected works of Feng Qi) (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 1996). This translation is slightly abridged (more heavily in the last part). Translated by Niu Xiaomei and Richard Stichler. Contemporary Chinese Thought, vol. 42, no. 3, Spring 2011, pp. 52–88. © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. A...

The land of Edom seems to be favorable to meditation. "Les riantes oasis, au milieu des contrees desolees, environnant la Mer Morte, etaient la demeure des sages et des reveurs. Bien des siecles apres l'auteur de Job, les Esseniens et les Therapeutes se plongeaient la dans la vie contemplative, pu bien ils se livraient a une vie simple, active et degagee de tout souci mondain. Encore un peu plus tard cette contree devint probablement le berceau de la kabbale ou du mysticisme juif " (DERENBOURG) \

We need a new kind of academic inquiry that gives intellectual priority to problems of living, problems of knowledge and technological know-how being important but secondary. This new kind of inquiry, having as its basic aim to seek and promote wisdom, is needed if humanity is to learn how to make progress towards a better world.

This special issue comprises select papers from the 2004 Eastern Academy of Management Conference with the theme of Organizational Wisdom: Human, Managerial, and Strategic Implications. The evolution of the field of organizational wisdom is discussed, and the focal articles are reconciled as to their relationship with and contribution to this emerging domain.

We are told that passwords are evil. We are told to change our passwords frequently, and never, never to write them down. We are even told that if you work for most U.S. corporations, frequent password changes are required by law. How much of this is true, and how much is simply mythology? Remarkably enough, the conventional wisdom can be wrong on all of these points, even the first.

The discovery of distinctive ‘Lapita’ pottery fragments from this period finally provided researchers with a trail to follow. What that trail revealed was that the migration across the South Pacific didn’t just happen by accident or chance. Indeed, by about 1100BCE it seems that ocean navigation had reached a level of sophistication that allowed for return voyages over many hundreds of nautical miles. How did this navigational knowledge system develop and spread so quickly? Was there some kind of nonlinear process involved that enabled the spread of this knowledge over such vast distances? Per...