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Ep. 43 - Wisdom and Virtue

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Capacity for Good Judgment Is Important for Wisdom

Balton Stoninger: You're wiser if you talk to other people, and that's sort of like duh. Why do we carry around this mythology of complete individualism? So that's one interesting finding. This goes back to the platonic dialogue that in discussion with others, we get to a level of wisdom that we cannot get to on our own. If you can internalize other people, they can give you the metacognitive ability to overcome your biases.

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