Peter Starr on Wisdom and Culture
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Continue reading “Serenity and Acceptance”Wisdom and happiness have long been associated with a certain serenity—an acceptance of one’s life and one’s self, in all their beauties, limitations, and imperfections.
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Continue reading “The Death of Old Goriot”Rastignac gives up on his chance for wisdom, but Balzac clearly holds out hope, against considerable odds, for his implied reader.
Continue reading “The Many Ages of Wisdom”Picture in your mind a wise man or wise woman. Chances are you imagined someone of advanced age—Dumbledore not Harry Potter, The Matrix’s Oracle not Trinity.