A. What kind of answer are you looking for?
B. It does to me.
Yes.
no, not anymore i don’t
but we all have your wisdom in our youth
That’s an interesting search; how would you do it?
Amor fati
We are all children
Alpha, if you had to categorize yourself as a certain philosophical ism or ist, what would it be? Who’s your favorite philosopher?
I think most if not all have their uses for different reasons.
Good answer. You should be a modal realist. I’m trying to recruit people.
LOL.
I’ll take it into consideration.
Thanks for the invite.
What are your objectives?
A necessary condition for wisdom, but not a sufficient one.
If you have to ask how to do it, you missed the point completely. The main point is being honest to yourself in your search for truth, unlike the hypocrites who say they seek it, but only seek to validate their beliefs and the the fact that they live a lie.
A useful body of knowledge.
Different people define wisdom differently, but I attempted to make a list of all the a priori theoretical possibilities of how anyone might define wisdom and what is useful about each one. I wrote this quickly and after 1 o’clock in the morning so its not very rigorous. Tomorrow morning I’ll probably think its stupid and filled with typos. I had fun writing it though.
1)Encyclopedic knowledge and memorization. The collection of many facts. This is useful for answering trivia questions, knowing how to do procedural tasks like baking, solving differential equations and bridge building. Memorizing most facts is probably a waste of time and brain space if you could just look them up on wikipedia.
2)Knowing how to do things fast/well. Knowing how to read fast or do difficult motor tasks. This includes the things we practice to get good at. Useful for sports and self defense etc. Allows you to get more things done in less time.
3)Aesthetic sense. An ability to appreciate beauty in nature, art, math, science, life or wherever it may be found. This is useful for associating with people of high society.
4)Emotional intelligence and self-knowledge. Knowledge of one's emotions. Understanding the interplay between emotion and action. Being able to have an emotional response to emotional things (happy movies, sad news, etc.). An ability to understand the emotional parameters of other people. This is useful in dealing with other people and overcoming one's own emotional impulses.
5)Philosophical reasoning ability. An ability to internalize evidence and argument for the sake of forming educated and well formulated opinions on fundamental philosophical questions about the world. Ie: Does God exist? Is evil an independent entity or the privation of good? Why does red appear to us as the color red and not as we perceive blue? Etc. This is only useful if you have number 6 as well.
6)An ability to apply one's philosophical reasoning abilities toward the definition of personal values, goals and to influence one's life and actions in a meaningful way. Useful if you assume what we shouldn't be arbitrary.
7)Knowledge of the nature of human knowledge. Knowledge of how little we all know. A sense of humility when it comes to most fundamental philosophical questions. Often accompanied by an aesthetic appreciation of the vastness of human knowledge and/or the emotional response of wonder and awe in the face of the unknown. This is useful if it saves you from forming opinions about things that are better left as questions.
'8)The development of a methodology of some sort that incorporates the tools of aesthetic sense, emotional intelligence, reasoning ability and an appreciation of life's mysteries so that the individual's human experience is deepened, empowered and enriched. If anyone has achieved this yet, please [i]private message[/i] me and teach.
Wisdom is the state of the more realized individual experiencing more realizations than a lesser realized individual observer.
Wisdom is acceptance of the existence of everything as it is simply because it is what it is and therefore finding peace in that acceptance with no interest in self-gaining interaction for any purpose, but only interested in observing existence as it is; happily.
Wisdom is finding out how to revert to being a child.
I haven’t often seen a child not interested in self-gaining interaction.
For example, they all want to learn how to walk and talk. Babies do not at all seem like Buddha’s to me, rather extremely egoistic and greedy.
That is what we find so adorable in them - they remind us of how we would be without the exhausting layers of social conditioning.
Each one of those lines are a separate listing; different faces of the same thing: wisdom.
Maybe wisdom is best defined as the approach to life that leads to happiness?
That can be misinterpreted as superficial happiness, which I do not believe is really wisdom but escapism.
While I understand your point of view I can also understand his.
Would true happiness surely not be something deeper than superficial happiness?
edited because i am an idiot
it’s all the same thing- wisdom is as intelligence as well as love or existence - all the same- or you can simply say that wisdom (all) is learning how to live more and more efficiently
love spreads and infinitely multiplies and never dies- when love grinds against each other it creates more and more love- this means the less love you come into contact with, the less love you will be able to show to others and remember everything is as love including wisdom.