Instagram. Knowledge. Wisdom. Wisdom. The ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight Wisdom Defending Youth Against Love by Meynier, c. 1810 Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight.[1] Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment,[2] and virtues such as ethics and benevolence.[3][4]
Plato's view of wisdom. In the Apology, Socrates identifies his activity with "wisdom"—"This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his wisdom is worthless [my emphasis]. " According to Plato, this is best thing for human life, the best way humans can live their lives, the only way human life will be satisfying. "Men of Athens, I am grateful and I am your friend, but I will obey the god rather than you, and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet: Good Sir, you are an Athenian, a citizen of the greatest city with the greatest reputation for both wisdom and power; are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
" Three Platonic images of wisdom 1. Wisdom.