Hargadon and Sutton also belong to this tradition, since they describe wisdom as the exercise of both irony and listening (two common ways of being in the world) in specific situations (of intermediation), e.g., the brainstorming sessions at IDEO that they investigate.
Based on my research on those recognized as "wise" by others, I describe wisdom as an internal navigation system that leads each and every person to our true north (our higher purpose) of "human flourishing for self and others".
Strategic knowledge enables teachers to evaluate and weigh different propositions and cases and to act flexibly in varying contexts, also described as wisdom of practice (Shulman 1986, 13).
At 9 a.m., though, Barbara and I take a break from the Middle East to hear Bishop John Chane deliver the Friday morning service, "Searching for a Common Language in the 21st Century," a philosophical sermon on how Christianity, and other religions, need to find a new, universal language to describe their fundamental wisdom about the central role of compassion in life.
Using the terms of this paper, we can describe the understanding of wisdom within the Aristotelian tradition as "first-order wisdom," since wisdom is taken to mean the capacity to merge the common and the singular in the situation.
On Thursday, in Part 2 of this post, I'll enlist more of Ms. Gottesman's and Mr. Vallaeys's wisdom to describe six more key mistakes that keep many small businesses from getting as much out of pay-per-click advertising as they could.
This description gets us closer to making the case for what might be better described as operational wisdom (similar to what the ancient Greeks referred to as phronesis, usually translated as "practical wisdom").
Whatever they were doing, it was not well described as "loving wisdom".
The results, Mr. Bruno said in an interview yesterday, confirmed what he described as the wisdom of his strategy.
In her famous essay "Seduction and Betrayal," she described the terrible wisdom vouchsafed to the betrayed heroine of classic literature: she "is never under the illusion that love or sex confers rights upon human beings.
In "Good Hair," Nia Long, the actress, describes the conventional wisdom that straightened hair is more desirable: "There's always a sort of pressure within the black community, like 'Oh, if you have good hair, you're prettier or better than the brown-skinned girl that wears an Afro or the dreads or the natural hairstyle.' " For some, the battle lines are drawn.
