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# What is the role of "embodiment" (the fact and implications of our existence in a body) in the pursuit of wisdom? Is the body primarily a hindrance to the accomplishment of wisdom? | # What is the role of "embodiment" (the fact and implications of our existence in a body) in the pursuit of wisdom? Is the body primarily a hindrance to the accomplishment of wisdom? | ||
# Is pain necessary for the achievement of wisdom? | # Is pain necessary for the achievement of wisdom? | ||
| + | # Is wisdom "ultimate knowledge" or is it practical know-how? | ||
| + | # Why do wisdom traditions typically seem to place wisdom "beyond" human experience? | ||
| + | # Does the Baltes rubric capture the nature of wisdom? | ||
| + | # Do Stoic, Epicurean, and Yogic strategies of adjusting the subject's orientation to the world hold promise for the cultivation of wisdom? How do these methods vary and overlap? | ||
| + | # Is the goal of Patanjali's Yoga achievable? Is it valuable as an approach to wisdom? | ||
| + | # How do the Spiritual Exercises engage similar methods as we found in Hellenism and Yoga? How is it uniquely connected to the Christian narrative of salvation? | ||
| + | # Does wisdom increase with age? Is there a wisdom for different stages of life? (recall the life stage psychologists) | ||
| + | # What is the psychological / causal connection between the various disciplines we have studied and claims made by adherents of those views about the goal the discipline? | ||
Latest revision as of 19:28, 7 April 2009
Return to Wisdom
- Can Wisdom be taught?
- Can kids be wise?
- What happens to wisdom in the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution?
- Is the philosophical wisdom of Plato an improvement over the Homeric model?
- What is the role of "embodiment" (the fact and implications of our existence in a body) in the pursuit of wisdom? Is the body primarily a hindrance to the accomplishment of wisdom?
- Is pain necessary for the achievement of wisdom?
- Is wisdom "ultimate knowledge" or is it practical know-how?
- Why do wisdom traditions typically seem to place wisdom "beyond" human experience?
- Does the Baltes rubric capture the nature of wisdom?
- Do Stoic, Epicurean, and Yogic strategies of adjusting the subject's orientation to the world hold promise for the cultivation of wisdom? How do these methods vary and overlap?
- Is the goal of Patanjali's Yoga achievable? Is it valuable as an approach to wisdom?
- How do the Spiritual Exercises engage similar methods as we found in Hellenism and Yoga? How is it uniquely connected to the Christian narrative of salvation?
- Does wisdom increase with age? Is there a wisdom for different stages of life? (recall the life stage psychologists)
- What is the psychological / causal connection between the various disciplines we have studied and claims made by adherents of those views about the goal the discipline?
