That was very well put (except for the extended-play parenthetical expression, which made that sentence difficult to parse).
I'll mostly agree that wisdom is unique to each person, and is "a result", although the idea of wisdom in the abstract poses some problems for me,as well. To me, wisdom describes an action. It's the old Buddhist thing about "skillful" and "unskillful" actions, in that what matters is not the gathering of some abstract quality, but how one's wisdom manifests itself in the world through one's actions.
Glad to have you aboard, FS! I didn't see you lurking back there...
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Date: 2007-03-10 11:12 pm (UTC)I'll mostly agree that wisdom is unique to each person, and is "a result", although the idea of wisdom in the abstract poses some problems for me,as well. To me, wisdom describes an action. It's the old Buddhist thing about "skillful" and "unskillful" actions, in that what matters is not the gathering of some abstract quality, but how one's wisdom manifests itself in the world through one's actions.
Glad to have you aboard, FS! I didn't see you lurking back there...