Wisdom

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• Wisdom Core Course Proposal
• Wisdom Course Basic Information
• Major Wisdom Research Questions
• Wisdom Course Reading Schedule
• In-Class Notes
• Study Questions
• Wisdom Course Bibliography
• Assignment Rubric
• The Short Short Guide to Wiki Edits
• Spring 2016 Wisdom Student Practice Page for Wiki - Introduce yourself. 3 points if done by Friday!
• Philosophical Methods

Google Forms, Class Audio, and Peerceptiv

• Peerceptive Sign up for Peerceptiv today! The class code is "hire12". Cost is $6.95 for the semester. Choose research option "yes"

• You will receive 5 points for signing up and completing payment by Friday. .

• Short Objective Quiz

• Small Group Discussion Report

• Tell Me - A general form for telling me anything anonymously or not.

• Anonymous Preference Voting

• Report Your Practicum

• Roster Information

• Audio From Class

• To access audio from class, fill in the weblink following this example: alfino.org/audiofromclass/447TJAN12.m4a
• Note the use of a "T" for Tuesday's class or "W" for Wednesday's class.

Resources for Projects and Practica

Practica

• Meditation Exercises

• Resources for Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness and Compassion) meditations

• The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. [1]
• A "progressive Christianity" site's resources. [2]
• "The Buddhist Centre" [3]

• Yoga Practice

• This practicum works with your choice of yoga practice, preferrably a practice that involves 2-3 sessions per week (one or more of which could be a home version of a studio class). You may want to read Fahri, Donna, "Cleaning up Our Act" from Bringing Yoga to Life (linked from courses.alfino.org) or other online reading about yoga philosophy. Over the course of the month you may want to try visiting one or two yoga studios that have less "exercise" oriented yoga.

• Wisdom journals based on spiritual practice from your religious tradition

• Students can work with a spiritual advisor (either from the community or Campus Ministry) and report weekly on their spiritual practice and it's potential relationship to wisdom.

• Seneca Meditations

• Read about Seneca and several of his essays and epistles (choose from topics below), then make a daily practice of reviewing your attitudes, motivation, and interactions with an eye to self-criticism in the spirit of stoicism in general and Seneca in particular. Seneca's essays are online at: Book 1 [4] and Book 2 [5]

• Read a few pages from Haphram's article on Seneca's view of gratitude (linked from courses.alfino.org)

• "A Perfect Day" Journal and Reflection

• note to follow

Projects

• Wisdom Movie List
• Wisdom Project and Research Suggestions

General Links to Wisdom related Resources

• Wisdom quotes

• Friends of Wisdom site, Nicholas Maxwell: [6]
• Review of a recent book by biologist David Sloan Wilson on group selection and altruism. [7]
• Some details about aging from Atul Gwande's new book, Being Mortal: Media:AgingDetailsGwandeBeingMortal.pdf
• Americans as outliers, Pew research. [8]
• Mischel impulse control video. very cute. [9]
• New Yorker article on delayed gratification [10]
• Wiki page on "deferred gratification" [11]
• Mather Amygdala Study Article
• Forest of Friendship, Baggage Carousel of Jerks[12]
• So You Think You're Smarter Than A CIA Agent, [13]
• Sikh Wisdom: [14], [15]
• Ngram for wisdom and related terms [16]
• TED talk on misdirection: [17]
• multi dimensional scaling [18]
• Video for the Trolley Problem [19]
• Wisdom Self-test

Notes from Previous Version of the Course

• In-Class Notes Spring 2015
• Study Questions Spring 2015