Continue reading “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.”
Wisdom in Community
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In Praise of Hard Work
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Continue reading “In Praise of Hard Work”Wisdom, like the pursuit of truth more generally, demands hard work.
Why Wisdom? Why Now?
Portions of this post first appeared in Inside Higher Ed and are reprinted here with permission
Continue reading “Why Wisdom? Why Now?”“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