What is wisdom? Philosophers, psychologists, spiritual leaders, poets, novelists, life coaches, and a variety of other important thinkers have tried to understand the concept of wisdom.
Delving back into the Greeks as 'wise' people often do; there is a potential resolution to the wisdom puzzle in The Apology.
Socrates, so we are told, neither suffers the vice of claiming to know things he does not know, nor the vice of claiming to have wisdom when he does not have wisdom.
One interpretation is that Socrates is wise because he, unlike the others, believes he is not wise, whereas say politicians, arrogantly believe they are wise - witness the quite frightening stupidity of Democrats questioning ACB. what is terrifying was their blind arrogance about their abilities (or wisdom) as they amply demonstrated that they are locked in the vice of arrogance.
What is required for politicians like Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Falwell et al is a good dose of epistemic humility, cannot include Trump in this ship of fools, although he is the braggart par excellence, for, after all he is not a politician and a graduate of the 'Swamp'.
Wise people, one might argue, possess epistemic self-confidence, yet lack epistemic arrogance. Wise people tend to acknowledge their fallibility, and wise people are reflective, introspective, and tolerant of uncertainty. Any acceptable theory of wisdom ought to be compatible with such traits. However, those traits are not, in and of themselves, definitive of that mythologised Socratic wisdom.
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