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===Birren and Svensson, Wisdom in History (2005)===
  
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:*2005 -- Wisdom in History -- This article gives us a broader historical perspective than earlier ones, but also a good summary of the paths taken by researchers (14-29).
  
[[Fall 2015 Proseminar Browsing Exercise]]
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:*1st historical treatment (in the course)that hits on the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution. 
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::*Connects with ancients on relation between knowledge and wisdom.
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::*Uncertainty: maybe wisdom is required where there is uncertainty.  Knowledge reduces uncertainty.  What follows?
  
===Singer, Ch. 1, "A Changing World"===
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::*Compare the following two hypotheses:
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:::*1. Wisdom disappears after the Scientific Revolution because we know a lot more now about how to live.  (post renaissance, Bacon might have thought wisdom one of the "idols of the tribe")
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:::*2. Wisdom disappears after the Scientific Revolution because scientific culture downplays the problem of finding "precepts for living" (We've talked about this already, but perhaps there are second thoughts.)
  
:*Globalization: Terrorism, climate change, (added: human migration)
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:*New detail on Socratic wisdom: Socrates' mantra: No man (or woman) errs willingly.
:*US interests: political consensus (dems/repubs) on Bush remark.
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:*Discussion of Plato: repeats a version of Laouvie-Vief's thesis: note p. 5
:*Should political leaders adopt an internationalist stance (beyond interests of their nation-state)?
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:*Note Aristotle paragraph at bot of 5.  
::*competing models of leadership
 
:*Historical parable: reaction to 1914 assasination of Crown Prince Ferdinand (and wife) by Bosnian Serb nationalists, starting WW1. Objections to Autro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia.  Compare to international reaction to US demands of Taliban to hand over Osama bin Laden.  principle p. 7, new today vs. WW1.
 
:*Rawls "old school" scope for theory of justice
 
:*Is the Nation-state on the decline?
 
:*Should we be internationalists? Why is multilaterism no longer a political topic in the US?
 
  
===Singer, Ch. 5, "One Community"===
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:*What follows from the way wisdom can move from secular to religious culture so easily?
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:*Recurrent theme in historical discussion: models of wisdom that involve transcendence or paradigm shift (Greek, Judaic, Christian, Islamic culture, , vs. models that remain "immanent" in daily life (Confucian, Hellenistic, some biblical sources, Aristotlean, contemporary secular (post renaissance/enlightenment)
  
:*Considers aid given after 9/11 to other international aid needs.  again with partiality.
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:*Wisdom in the psychological sciences
:*Sidgwick and Himmler on partiality.  Godwin on saving Fenelon vs. the chambermaid.
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::*Not really a central topic immediatelyNot susceptible to rigorous definition or a bottom up approach (though now we'll see that in Hall's reporting, in the day (pre-80s), this was harder to see. So you have to have really good vision (like William James and John Dewey) to see it).  Also, Erikson, Jung.
:*Singer's famous example of saving the small child drowning in the university fountain.  distance doesn't matter.
 
:*Biblical reference to Paul and ethics of partiality.
 
:*Examination of different forms of partiality: family and kin, gratitude 160ff. 
 
:*Compatriots 167ff. prefering our own might be justified by obligation of reciprocity.   
 
:*Choice between "imagined" community of nation-state and "imagined" global community.
 
:*Justice between vs. within states: Wellman's arguments
 
:*Rawls and The Law of Peoples: Rawls example of the two societies: no obligation to redistribute to improve the worst off between the two societies.
 
:*2nd criticism: Why allow difference between countries to circumvent redistribution and not allow differences within a country to do so?  178
 
:*Millenium Development Goals (MDGs); US shortfalls; public perceptions of giving (15% rather than actual 1%)
 
:*Comparative Value Exercise: Unger's thought experiment: Bob's bugattiamputation scenarios. yuck.
 
  
===Sachs, Jeffrey, "Can the Rich Afford to Help the Poor?" (2006)===
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::*Definitions of wisdom present in Sternberg. table on 16-18.  Look at Baltes and Smith.  Note how the relative weight cognitive capacities changes across the definitions.  Can you notice tensions between particular definitions. Page through the brief discussion of research projects, p. 16-25.
  
:*(One of the architects of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Opposed by some noted development economists.)
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::*Discuss "meta-cognitive" dimension of wisdom. (17)
:*Optimist about relief:  .7 GNP level of giving adequate. Absolute poverty down from 1/3 to 1/5 (interesting to compare US discussion in 1960 at the start of the domestic "war on poverty" of the Johnson administration)
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::*Wisdom and age (19)
::*Increase in wealth of the rich world is dramatic (note Rawlsian difference principle from yesterday)
 
::*(Digression on actual giving: [http://www.globalissues.org/article/35/foreign-aid-development-assistance]
 
::*Note analysis on pages 294 of amounts that developing countries can supply to meet their own poverty needs.  Middle-income countries like Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have enough.
 
  
:*Can the US afford to meet a .7 GNP target?
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:*First characterization of Berlin Wisdom Paradigm: also Hall 49.  Note method, model included historical study. criticisms (note positive aspect here). Ardelt trajectory (Hall)
::*Sachs considers this obvious. To dramatize his point, on pages 304-308, he points out that the wealthiest 400 US citizens earned more than the total populations of Botswana, Nigeria, Senegal, and UgandaMore to the point, the tax cuts this group received during the Bush administration in 2001, 2002, and 2003 totaled about 50 billion a year, enough to meet the US giving goal of .7% of GNP.
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:*Sternberg's direction: relation of wisdom to intelligence and creativity (note on method here: use of constructs.)
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:*Taranto: focus on human limitation.
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:*Kramer: organismic. cognition/affect. five functions.
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:*McKee and Barber: "seeing through illusion"
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:*Meacham: fallibility of knowledgebalance of positivity/doubt.
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:*Chandler and Holliday: most well developed construct after Baltes. (23)
  
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===Hall, Wisdom, Chapter 3 "Heart and Mind"===
  
===Singer, "Rich and Poor"===
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:*Note that Hall is telling something of the "sociology of knowledge" about the rise of wisdom research.
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:*Vivian Clayton -- reflects on family member's traits.  poses question of meaning of wisdom and relation to age.  Follow statement on p. 43. Compare to Gisela.  Also, note from the end of the chapter about her story.  Choice, seeing wisdom easier than doing it.
  
:*facts about absolute poverty
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:*Erikson -- idea of wisdom as end stage "8" of process of self-realization. (really more "rationalist psychology")
:*difference between grain consumption accounted for in terms of meat consumptionproblem of distribution rather than production.
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::*Interesting hypothesis in face of growth of knowledge in gerontology about decay of faculties. Correction to last week's
:*absolute affluence = affluent by any reasonable defintion of human needsGo through paragraph on 221.
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:*Hall's account of Genesis myth as also about acquiring "original wisdom" -- wisdom as the price of seeing things clearly.  wisdom as necessarily acquired through transgression vs. living within limits.  also "dark wisdom".
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:*Baltes, Smith, Staudinger, Kunzemann.  -- Berlin Wisdom Paradigm -- brief overview, 49ff.  Note how he derived his construct and method of research+96
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:*Early critics: Carstensen and Ardelt -- felt Baltes Wisdom Paradigm (BWP) didn't focus enough on emotion.
  
:*figures on giving by country: OPEC countries most generous. U.S. and Japan least.
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===Hall, Chapter 4, "Emotional Regulation"===
The Moral equivalent of murder?
 
five purported differences:
 
::*1. allowing to die not eq. to killing.  no intention to kill. 
 
::*2. impossible to ask us to be obligated to keep everyone alive.
 
::*3. uncertainty of outcome in not aiding vs. pointing a gun.  less direct responsibility, less like 1st deg. murder.
 
::*4. no direct and identifiable causal connection between consumerist action and death of individuals in other countries.
 
::*5. People would be starving with or without me.  I am not a necessary condition for there to be starving people.
 
  
:*Singer's point: these differences are extrinsic to the moral problem. there would be cases with these features in which we would still hold the person responsible. 
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:*Emotional regulation as a compensating strength of aging.  
  
:*Showing the extrinsic character of the differences: Singer's argument strategies at this point is to show that the differences are smaller and more contingent that one might thinkPoint by point:
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:*"Carstensen and her colleagues have proposed that successful emotional regulation is tightly connected to a persons sense of time—usually, but not always, time as it is reflected by one's age and stage of life. "According to our theory, this isn't a quality of aging per se, but of time horizons," she explained. "When your time perspective shortens, as it does when you come closer to the ends of things, you tend to focus on emotionally meaningful goals. " 63
  
::*1.  example of salesman selling tainted food.  doesn't matter if no identifiable victim in advance.
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:*socioemotional selectivity theory (Cartensen's- How can the benefits of this view become available to the young?
::*2.  lack of certainty about the value of donations does reduce the wrongness of not giving (concession), but doesn't mean that its ok not to give.
 
::*3. responsibility for acts but not omissions is incoherent way to think about responsibility.  consequences of our actions are our responsibility.  irrelevant that the person would have died if I had never existed.
 
Considers non-consequentialist justifications for not aiding (166)
 
:::*idea of independent individual in Locke and Nozick doesn't make sense. Note appeal to social conception of humans based on ancestry!
 
::*absence of malice also doesn't excuse inaction.  involuntary manslaughter (in the case say of a speedin motorist) is still blameworthy.
 
::*grants that we may not be as blameworthy for not saving many lives if saving those live requires heroic action.
 
  
:*The obligation to assist: Main Principle: '''If it is in our power to prevent something vey bad happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance, we ought to do it.'''
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:Emotional Resilience: *Job's emotional resilience. Is it patience or resilience?  What is the diff?
::*goes on to claim that it is within the power of dev. countries to aid the poor without sacrificing . . . etc.
 
considers major objections:
 
  
:*taking care of your own
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:*problem in history of philosophy -- downplaying of emotion.  But then Hume, and James' "What is an Emotion?"
:*property rights [at most weakens the argument for mandatory giving (but note that governmental means might be the most effective, esp. where problems have a political dimension)
 
  
:*population and the ethics of triage:
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:*Gross: "reappraisal" and "reflection" as techniques of emotional regulation. vs. rumination 66.  note mechanism suggested for each.  (Note connection to therapeutic writing.  Possible topic for short research.)  Notice this way of thinking suggests that emotional regulation is trainable.
:*questions whether the world is really like a life boat
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:*Cartensens' research in assisted living homes.  counterintuitive answers. (67) "time horizon" theory.  Implications. 
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:*Carstensen on the paradigmatic tasks of the young: "knowledge trajectory" (70); "collectors" 71, 
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:*71: neuroscience on learning from loss; affect forecasting; young as steep "discounters"; greater appetite for risk, less for ambiguity.
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:*73: emotional resilience in Davidson's longitudinal neuroscience research: correlation of emotional regulation and brain pattern.  Gabrielli studies on young amygdalas.  Gross on male/female emotional processing.
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:*positive illusion (optimism bias) (compare to Seneca's advice
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:*"Grandparent hypothesis"
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:*'''Concluding Group Discussion''': Is emotional regulation something that a young person could use to mimic the emotional regulative experience of older people?  Is such a goal possible, desirable?
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===Wisdom Observations #2===
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:*"(1) My roommate had a big paper due for her nursing class yesterday, but we had a few birthday parties this past weekend. I saw wisdom in my roommate’s decision to skip some of the weekend’s festivities to get her paper done, instead of saving it until Sunday night. I think she made a good choice in her decision to put school first, and she exhibited a good amount of wisdom.
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:*(2) I had a tough decision to make over the weekend, and as I was problem-solving with my mom, she showed strong wisdom in the advice she gave me. I respect my mom’s advice for my situation, and the suggestions she gave me were very wise and had my best interests in mind."
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:*Places I've seen wisdom:
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::*-In my jazz class, my jazz professor decided on the first day that he was no longer going to use a textbook or traditional teaching methods to teach the course; instead, he wanted to focus entirely on listening and the music in order to teach jazz. He said he believed the music should be felt and this could only be gained through listening and experience.
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::*I have a good friend who played soccer on a few teams up to high school. She was one of the best players and by her junior year she started getting offers from a few large colleges who began competing over her. She was offered a full ride to Nevada and was planning on going there. In one of the final games of her senior high school season she tore her ACL for the third time in her left knee. It was heartbreaking and she had to decide what to do. She made the hard decision to stop playing soccer forever and to give up the sport she loved. Now she is a junior engineer at GU and excelling in many ways.
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:*"Daily experience of wisdom
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::*When having coffee at a downtown location of Starbucks, a woman in a wheelchair passing by caught the attention of two female religious studies students and came in to talk to them.  The students joined in conversation with her over her pet dog (which was a wooden sculpture of a dog), and after a short chat, they chose to pray over her. While the conversation was short, the eye contact they all maintained appeared to be sincere and the woman was pleased to be in conversation with the students.
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::*After she left, another patron came over and praised the students for their kindness and generosity to the woman.  He commented that their spontaneity inspired him.  What I thought was a moment of foolishness in choosing to walk the dog on campus in the afternoon, instead of writing this, turned out to have been a good choice.  I met a student, who after spending some time playing with my dog, told me that this meant a great deal to her today, as the day had not been going well.  I wished her well.
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:*"There are many situations in my daily experiences in which I think wisdom is evident or in question. Last week, one of my roommates was treating the rest of our house pretty poorly. She was being very unkind, and I just tried to ignore it and let her cool off. That was foolish because I should have told her that behavior isn't okay with the rest of us instead of let her get away with it. Because the situation lasted longer than one would anticipate, I eventually felt the need to talk to her. I asked her how she was doing and tried to engage in dialogue about her actions which I felt was wise because it showed her I cared about her feelings but also let her know that she can't act that way in the future.
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:*Another situation in the week where I was unwise, as you could guess, would be with homework. I had an assignment due for one of my classes on Monday morning at 9am. I had plenty of time to work on it, but it seemed extremely quick and easy so I put it off until Sunday night. That was stupid because there were parts to the assignment I couldn't complete. To combat that - I was wise and used my resources to complete the assignment on time.
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:*The final situation was one where I showed wisdom. My friend was having issues with his girlfriend and their relationship and I was able to put myself in her shoes and try to make the situation best for both of them. Even though it was not the easiest route, it was the best thing to do and showed wisdom on his part as well to be mature and do the right thing. "
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Last week I went to visit my grandpa. He asked me to do some of his laundry, so I did. While loading the wash machine, I noticed a plethora of notes hanging on the cabinet above. They said things like, "Add 3/4 cup of soap," "Select REGULAR wash," and "Need to turn water on because you turned it off before leaving last time." It was wise of him to first recognize his forgetfulness, and then make accommodations that would help him in the future. While leaving the notes for himself, he had to somewhat predict that his forgetfulness would limit his ability to do laundry the way it is supposed to be done.  The notes help eliminate difficulty and confusion for him (that is, when I'm not there to do laundry for him)!
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This weekend I was going to the basketball game with some of my friends. One of them decided she had too much homework and studying to do because she has tests this week, so she didn’t go to the game. I thought she portrayed wisdom in this decision because although she had the opportunity to go have fun and wanted to, she instead made the better, more beneficial decision of getting work done so she wasn’t as stressed for the week.
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For the last couple of weeks my housemate has been making the wise decision of on every Sunday, making a meal schedule of what she will be making for lunches and dinners all week so that way when she goes grocery shopping, she knows exactly what to buy and doesn’t waste money on unnecessary items. I think this is wise because she then has her week planned out for her, which eliminates stress and also is not wasting money, which leaves her more money for other expenses instead.
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My friend is worried about the amount of money she has been spending lately, so she sat down and made a budget to manage her expenses. After that, she went along with our friends while they went shopping and found a jacket that she really wanted. She ended up making the wise decision of not getting the jacket because she knew it would exceed her budget and she wouldn’t have enough money for groceries for the week.

Revision as of 01:44, 3 February 2016

2/3 FEB

Birren and Svensson, Wisdom in History (2005)

  • 2005 -- Wisdom in History -- This article gives us a broader historical perspective than earlier ones, but also a good summary of the paths taken by researchers (14-29).
  • 1st historical treatment (in the course)that hits on the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution.
  • Connects with ancients on relation between knowledge and wisdom.
  • Uncertainty: maybe wisdom is required where there is uncertainty. Knowledge reduces uncertainty. What follows?
  • Compare the following two hypotheses:
  • 1. Wisdom disappears after the Scientific Revolution because we know a lot more now about how to live. (post renaissance, Bacon might have thought wisdom one of the "idols of the tribe")
  • 2. Wisdom disappears after the Scientific Revolution because scientific culture downplays the problem of finding "precepts for living" (We've talked about this already, but perhaps there are second thoughts.)
  • New detail on Socratic wisdom: Socrates' mantra: No man (or woman) errs willingly.
  • Discussion of Plato: repeats a version of Laouvie-Vief's thesis: note p. 5
  • Note Aristotle paragraph at bot of 5.
  • What follows from the way wisdom can move from secular to religious culture so easily?
  • Recurrent theme in historical discussion: models of wisdom that involve transcendence or paradigm shift (Greek, Judaic, Christian, Islamic culture, , vs. models that remain "immanent" in daily life (Confucian, Hellenistic, some biblical sources, Aristotlean, contemporary secular (post renaissance/enlightenment)
  • Wisdom in the psychological sciences
  • Not really a central topic immediately. Not susceptible to rigorous definition or a bottom up approach (though now we'll see that in Hall's reporting, in the day (pre-80s), this was harder to see. So you have to have really good vision (like William James and John Dewey) to see it). Also, Erikson, Jung.
  • Definitions of wisdom present in Sternberg. table on 16-18. Look at Baltes and Smith. Note how the relative weight cognitive capacities changes across the definitions. Can you notice tensions between particular definitions. Page through the brief discussion of research projects, p. 16-25.
  • Discuss "meta-cognitive" dimension of wisdom. (17)
  • Wisdom and age (19)
  • First characterization of Berlin Wisdom Paradigm: also Hall 49. Note method, model included historical study. criticisms (note positive aspect here). Ardelt trajectory (Hall)
  • Sternberg's direction: relation of wisdom to intelligence and creativity (note on method here: use of constructs.)
  • Taranto: focus on human limitation.
  • Kramer: organismic. cognition/affect. five functions.
  • McKee and Barber: "seeing through illusion"
  • Meacham: fallibility of knowledge. balance of positivity/doubt.
  • Chandler and Holliday: most well developed construct after Baltes. (23)

Hall, Wisdom, Chapter 3 "Heart and Mind"

  • Note that Hall is telling something of the "sociology of knowledge" about the rise of wisdom research.
  • Vivian Clayton -- reflects on family member's traits. poses question of meaning of wisdom and relation to age. Follow statement on p. 43. Compare to Gisela. Also, note from the end of the chapter about her story. Choice, seeing wisdom easier than doing it.
  • Erikson -- idea of wisdom as end stage "8" of process of self-realization. (really more "rationalist psychology")
  • Interesting hypothesis in face of growth of knowledge in gerontology about decay of faculties. Correction to last week's
  • Hall's account of Genesis myth as also about acquiring "original wisdom" -- wisdom as the price of seeing things clearly. wisdom as necessarily acquired through transgression vs. living within limits. also "dark wisdom".
  • Baltes, Smith, Staudinger, Kunzemann. -- Berlin Wisdom Paradigm -- brief overview, 49ff. Note how he derived his construct and method of research. +96
  • Early critics: Carstensen and Ardelt -- felt Baltes Wisdom Paradigm (BWP) didn't focus enough on emotion.

Hall, Chapter 4, "Emotional Regulation"

  • Emotional regulation as a compensating strength of aging.
  • "Carstensen and her colleagues have proposed that successful emotional regulation is tightly connected to a persons sense of time—usually, but not always, time as it is reflected by one's age and stage of life. "According to our theory, this isn't a quality of aging per se, but of time horizons," she explained. "When your time perspective shortens, as it does when you come closer to the ends of things, you tend to focus on emotionally meaningful goals. " 63
  • socioemotional selectivity theory (Cartensen's) - How can the benefits of this view become available to the young?
Emotional Resilience: *Job's emotional resilience. Is it patience or resilience? What is the diff?
  • problem in history of philosophy -- downplaying of emotion. But then Hume, and James' "What is an Emotion?"
  • Gross: "reappraisal" and "reflection" as techniques of emotional regulation. vs. rumination 66. note mechanism suggested for each. (Note connection to therapeutic writing. Possible topic for short research.) Notice this way of thinking suggests that emotional regulation is trainable.
  • Cartensens' research in assisted living homes. counterintuitive answers. (67) "time horizon" theory. Implications.
  • Carstensen on the paradigmatic tasks of the young: "knowledge trajectory" (70); "collectors" 71,
  • 71: neuroscience on learning from loss; affect forecasting; young as steep "discounters"; greater appetite for risk, less for ambiguity.
  • 73: emotional resilience in Davidson's longitudinal neuroscience research: correlation of emotional regulation and brain pattern. Gabrielli studies on young amygdalas. Gross on male/female emotional processing.
  • positive illusion (optimism bias) (compare to Seneca's advice
  • "Grandparent hypothesis"
  • Concluding Group Discussion: Is emotional regulation something that a young person could use to mimic the emotional regulative experience of older people? Is such a goal possible, desirable?

Wisdom Observations #2

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  • "(1) My roommate had a big paper due for her nursing class yesterday, but we had a few birthday parties this past weekend. I saw wisdom in my roommate’s decision to skip some of the weekend’s festivities to get her paper done, instead of saving it until Sunday night. I think she made a good choice in her decision to put school first, and she exhibited a good amount of wisdom.
  • (2) I had a tough decision to make over the weekend, and as I was problem-solving with my mom, she showed strong wisdom in the advice she gave me. I respect my mom’s advice for my situation, and the suggestions she gave me were very wise and had my best interests in mind."


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  • Places I've seen wisdom:
  • -In my jazz class, my jazz professor decided on the first day that he was no longer going to use a textbook or traditional teaching methods to teach the course; instead, he wanted to focus entirely on listening and the music in order to teach jazz. He said he believed the music should be felt and this could only be gained through listening and experience.
  • I have a good friend who played soccer on a few teams up to high school. She was one of the best players and by her junior year she started getting offers from a few large colleges who began competing over her. She was offered a full ride to Nevada and was planning on going there. In one of the final games of her senior high school season she tore her ACL for the third time in her left knee. It was heartbreaking and she had to decide what to do. She made the hard decision to stop playing soccer forever and to give up the sport she loved. Now she is a junior engineer at GU and excelling in many ways.

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  • "Daily experience of wisdom
  • When having coffee at a downtown location of Starbucks, a woman in a wheelchair passing by caught the attention of two female religious studies students and came in to talk to them. The students joined in conversation with her over her pet dog (which was a wooden sculpture of a dog), and after a short chat, they chose to pray over her. While the conversation was short, the eye contact they all maintained appeared to be sincere and the woman was pleased to be in conversation with the students.
  • After she left, another patron came over and praised the students for their kindness and generosity to the woman. He commented that their spontaneity inspired him. What I thought was a moment of foolishness in choosing to walk the dog on campus in the afternoon, instead of writing this, turned out to have been a good choice. I met a student, who after spending some time playing with my dog, told me that this meant a great deal to her today, as the day had not been going well. I wished her well.

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  • "There are many situations in my daily experiences in which I think wisdom is evident or in question. Last week, one of my roommates was treating the rest of our house pretty poorly. She was being very unkind, and I just tried to ignore it and let her cool off. That was foolish because I should have told her that behavior isn't okay with the rest of us instead of let her get away with it. Because the situation lasted longer than one would anticipate, I eventually felt the need to talk to her. I asked her how she was doing and tried to engage in dialogue about her actions which I felt was wise because it showed her I cared about her feelings but also let her know that she can't act that way in the future.
  • Another situation in the week where I was unwise, as you could guess, would be with homework. I had an assignment due for one of my classes on Monday morning at 9am. I had plenty of time to work on it, but it seemed extremely quick and easy so I put it off until Sunday night. That was stupid because there were parts to the assignment I couldn't complete. To combat that - I was wise and used my resources to complete the assignment on time.
  • The final situation was one where I showed wisdom. My friend was having issues with his girlfriend and their relationship and I was able to put myself in her shoes and try to make the situation best for both of them. Even though it was not the easiest route, it was the best thing to do and showed wisdom on his part as well to be mature and do the right thing. "

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Last week I went to visit my grandpa. He asked me to do some of his laundry, so I did. While loading the wash machine, I noticed a plethora of notes hanging on the cabinet above. They said things like, "Add 3/4 cup of soap," "Select REGULAR wash," and "Need to turn water on because you turned it off before leaving last time." It was wise of him to first recognize his forgetfulness, and then make accommodations that would help him in the future. While leaving the notes for himself, he had to somewhat predict that his forgetfulness would limit his ability to do laundry the way it is supposed to be done. The notes help eliminate difficulty and confusion for him (that is, when I'm not there to do laundry for him)!

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This weekend I was going to the basketball game with some of my friends. One of them decided she had too much homework and studying to do because she has tests this week, so she didn’t go to the game. I thought she portrayed wisdom in this decision because although she had the opportunity to go have fun and wanted to, she instead made the better, more beneficial decision of getting work done so she wasn’t as stressed for the week.

For the last couple of weeks my housemate has been making the wise decision of on every Sunday, making a meal schedule of what she will be making for lunches and dinners all week so that way when she goes grocery shopping, she knows exactly what to buy and doesn’t waste money on unnecessary items. I think this is wise because she then has her week planned out for her, which eliminates stress and also is not wasting money, which leaves her more money for other expenses instead.

My friend is worried about the amount of money she has been spending lately, so she sat down and made a budget to manage her expenses. After that, she went along with our friends while they went shopping and found a jacket that she really wanted. She ended up making the wise decision of not getting the jacket because she knew it would exceed her budget and she wouldn’t have enough money for groceries for the week.