Wisdom

Wisdom : wise sayings or teachings, precepts. Wisdom, has to do more with insight, understanding and accepting of the fundamental ‘nature’ of things in life. Let’s focus on our pursuit for knowledge first.
Any information, knowledge, education, how to do, tips and tricks, communication, inform about anything or everything,  facts, piece of  information helps to gain it. 

Philosophers, psychologists, spiritual leaders, poets, novelists, life coaches, and a variety of other important thinkers have tried to understand the concept of wisdom. This entry will provide a brief and general overview, and analysis of, several philosophical views on the topic of it. It is not intended to capture the many interesting and important approaches to this found in other fields of inquiry. Moreover, this entry will focus on several major ideas in the Western philosophical tradition. In particular, it will focus on five general approaches to understanding what it takes to be wise: (1) wisdom as epistemic humility, (2) wisdom as epistemic accuracy, (3) wisdom as knowledge, (4) a hybrid theory of wisdom, and (5) wisdom as rationality.

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