Understanding Wisdom: Sources, Science and Society

✍ Scribed by Warren Brown

Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press,U.S.
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 461
Series: Laws of Life Symposia Series; 03
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Sheds light on the age-old question: What is wisdom and where does it come from? This book also presents research on brain functioning, drawn from observing individuals with damage to specific neural areas, to suggest the importance of integration between hemispheres of the brain to comprehend complex situations in a way that may be termed wise.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction: A Hierarchical Framework for Understanding Wisdom
Part I: The Sources of Wisdom
1. The Sources of Wisdom
2. Profundity with Panache: The Unappreciated Proverbial Wisdom of Sub-Saharan Africa
3. “A House Divided”: From Biblical Proverb to Lincoln and Beyond
4. Israel’s Wisdom Literature and the Intrinsic Integrity of Creation
5. Wisdom on Death and Suffering
6. It Takes Wisdom to Use Wisdom Wisely
Part II: The Science of Wisdom
7.Wisdom Traditions as Mechanisms for Organismal Integration: Evolutionary Perspectives on Homeostatic “Laws of Life”
8. Wisdom and Human Neurocognitive Systems: Perceiving and Practicing the Laws of Life
9. A Neurolinguistic Perspectiveon Proverbs and the Laws of Life
10. On the Emergence of Wisdom: Expertise Development
11. The Science of Art: How the Brain Responds to Beauty
12. A Scientific Study of Wisdom (Or Its Contributing Parts)
Part III: The Learning of Wisdom
13. Wise Emotions
14. Setting the Stage for the Development of Wisdom: Self-understanding and Moral Identity During Adolescence
15. Lessons Learned: The Role of Religion in the Development of Wisdom in Adolescence
16. Maxims to Live By: The Art and Scienceof Teaching Wise Sayings
17. Seeing Wisely—Learning to Become Wise
Contributors
Name and Subject Index
Scripture Index

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