Is There a Dissociation Between Intelligence and Wisdom?

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I think there's a distinction between human dignity and like th the political equivalents between people. I am certainly an intelligence and a capacity for ethical engagement and love and compassion. And it's the love and compassion and wisdom side of things that wants to build a more galetarian view of the situation. There are people who create net harm to society. You know, we put certain people in boxes for the rest of their lives because they're so despicable and dangerous if you let them out of the box. We also give them competent medical re when they need it. But i feel like we can't lie to ourselves about there being a kind of ethical hierarchy as well. What are the human values

Sam Harris speaks with Arthur C. Brooks about what it takes to build a good life. They discuss the power of social comparison, the intelligence taboo, political dignity and ethical hierarchy, the Dalai Lama, the nature of love, fluid and crystallized intelligences, the strange case of Linus Pauling, the limits of identity, atheism and religious faith, fear of death, psychedelics, existentialism, St. Thomas Aquinas, and other topics.

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