Peter Starr on Wisdom and Culture
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Continue reading “Epilogue: AI Reads Me”You are an academic writing a critique of the conception of wisdom outlined in Peter Starr’s blog at Wiscult.com. What are the principal shortcoming of this conception and how would you suggest rectifying them?
Continue reading “The Wisdom of Fun Home in the Age of AI”If wisdom requires that we not take ourselves too seriously “as the center of everything,” then it is appropriate to ask whether the absence of self-mockery in both the generative AI essays and our work as literary critics does not mean that they, and we, fall short of wisdom as Bechdel sees it.
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Continue reading “Reading for Wisdom in the Age of AI”The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations
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Continue reading “In Praise of Hard Work”Wisdom, like the pursuit of truth more generally, demands hard work.
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Continue reading “Rethinking Liberal Education”Narrative imagination is an essential preparation for moral interaction. Habits of empathy and conjecture conduce to a certain type of citizenship and a certain form of community: one that cultivates a sympathetic responsiveness to another’s needs, and understands the way circumstances shape those needs, while respecting separateness and privacy.
Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity