Wisdom : a humanistic conception /
"This book develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude that guides how we evaluate the possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we live. The attitude is formed of our beliefs, emotions, desires, evaluations, and experiences that make our inner l...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT (1 user limit) |
| Summary: | "This book develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude that guides how we evaluate the possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we live. The attitude is formed of our beliefs, emotions, desires, evaluations, and experiences that make our inner life what it is. It is a personal, pluralistic, and fallible. Its components differ from person to person and each may be mistaken. It is a wise attitude if it is based on a critical enough understanding of the reasons for and against its components; if its basic factual and evaluative assumptions are realistic; and if it involves a sufficiently reflective and deep enough understanding of the prevailing conditions, personal and social problems and possibilities; and of the strengths and weaknesses of the available evaluative resources. We all have some attitude of how we should live, but it is difficult to have a wise attitude. That is why wisdom is at once rare and precious because the sense we can make of our life depends on it. This conception of wisdom is personal, pluralistic, and fallible. It is a radical departure from traditional conceptions of wisdom understood as knowledge of the ideal of The Good that holds for everyone, always, everywhere. It is a conception that is personal, not theoretical; anthropocentric, not metaphysical; context-dependent, not universal; and humanistic, not scientific. The conception that emerges from this book is intended as a contribution to philosophy as a humanistic discipline ""-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197514057 0197514065 0197514073 9780197514054 9780197514061 9780197514078 |
