Essays on Wisdom

In the practice of psychotherapy, this book has given me some excellent tools, the first was that it helped me to realize that everything I have done does not mean that I am progressing linearly in my process. On the contrary, it made me see that the process is not linear at all, but that…

The House Of Wisdom by Jonathan Lyons is a book written about how the west was transformed by muslim learning. Lyons intention in writing this book was to track where the scientific revolution of the west europeans came from. The thesis of this book is if many western scientific concepts originate with the arabs then…

Social media is the foundation of communication in the world we live in today. Not only do we have access to communicate locally, but it is essentially a key to the rest of the world. We have access to communicate and interact with people that aren’t exactly right in front of us. And sometimes these…

What does the dichotomy between man and nature mean? This question has long haunted mankind, and because literature reflects human thinking and feeling, it has long haunted texts as well. Ecocriticism, a field of literary theory, particularly focuses on comprehending human subjectivity in relation to nature in order to formulate answers to that age-old question…

In philosophy, there are different principles and philosophers that are studied. In this specific course and time, one has covered and somewhat focused on Socrates and his method for pursuing wisdom. With the readings provided, one is able to conclude that, based off of what Socrates has said, wisdom is one’s understanding of the limit…

Philosophy is a way of thinking that attempts to make the connection between the nature of human thinking and the nature of the universe. Human character is built throughout life with the qualities that one embraces to strengthen one’s being. Plato (427-347 BCE) and Sophocles (496-406 BCE), were ancient Greek philosophers that sought to make…

The Search for WisdomWisdom, as defined in the dictionary, is “the sum of learning through the ages; knowledge”. Plato’s Socrates indicates that wisdom is the acknowledgement of ignorance. This statement may be hard to prove as true. If a deaf and dumb man came to realize that he knew nothing, because he is not able…

Words of WisdomSometimes the strangest situations turn out to be miracles in disguise. That iswhat happened to me. Who thought that someone who did not like English thatmuch would pick a career that deals with it every day? I sure did not. It must havebeen something in the air at Kossuth High School, maybe the…