I commented on someone's post recently about our human capacity to "think about thinking". That person was talking about human exceptionalism and the evolution of consciousness while reviewing literature suggesting that it was women who first entered that territory.
As a lifelong lover of wisdom, I couldn't resist your title and I found your article all worth the read. I appreciate the clarity, the details, the examples, and the comprehensiveness of your report. I think you have offered an excellent map and marked a powerful trail.
In my own work, I often employ the classical notion that wisdom is the result of goodness, truth, and beauty working together. I have a theory that most of us tend to favor one of these three "doorways" into wisdom. Your article got me thinking about how lovers of truth, lovers of beauty, and lovers of goodness might think differently. In each case, we can develop the ability to take our thought as the object of our reflection but does our thought tend to encompass different things? Does each love disclose a different realm? Is integrating the realities of these realms the work of wisdom?
Thanks to you, I will be thinking about these questions. I hope you don't mind that I shared them here in a stream of consciousness. I certainly look forward to reading more of what you have to say on this and other topics. 🌼
I commented on someone's post recently about our human capacity to "think about thinking". That person was talking about human exceptionalism and the evolution of consciousness while reviewing literature suggesting that it was women who first entered that territory.
As a lifelong lover of wisdom, I couldn't resist your title and I found your article all worth the read. I appreciate the clarity, the details, the examples, and the comprehensiveness of your report. I think you have offered an excellent map and marked a powerful trail.
In my own work, I often employ the classical notion that wisdom is the result of goodness, truth, and beauty working together. I have a theory that most of us tend to favor one of these three "doorways" into wisdom. Your article got me thinking about how lovers of truth, lovers of beauty, and lovers of goodness might think differently. In each case, we can develop the ability to take our thought as the object of our reflection but does our thought tend to encompass different things? Does each love disclose a different realm? Is integrating the realities of these realms the work of wisdom?
Thanks to you, I will be thinking about these questions. I hope you don't mind that I shared them here in a stream of consciousness. I certainly look forward to reading more of what you have to say on this and other topics. 🌼