Wisdom in Community

In short, what Alison Bechdel says of the essentialist/anti-essentialist debate applies to wisdom as well: “Clearly, [we] need to rethink this thing.”

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In Praise of Hard Work

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Wisdom, like the pursuit of truth more generally, demands hard work. 

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Why Wisdom? Why Now?

Portions of this post first appeared in Inside Higher Ed and are reprinted here with permission

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“I am wiser than he is to this small extent that I do not think that I know what I do not know.”

Socrates, in Plato, The Apology of Socrates
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