
Ep. 44 - Theories of Wisdom
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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Is There a Product Theory of Wisdom?
What we're getting here is a product theory of wisdom in which what you're trying to do is to come up with sort of the account of what wisdom is. It omits something that's very important though. If you look at Plato, even Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and the Stoics and if you look at the Buddha, the centrality of transformational change in wisdom is being lost in a product theory. You also need, and these two should talk to each other, you need a process theory. And I think this is a very important thing to do to try and figure out what wisdom is from an account of how one becomes wise.
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