The Great Conversation:Wisdom—Part VII By Gabriel Blanchard If there is any single father of the Western tradition, it is surely Socrates; and the only thing Socrates claimed to […]
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The tall, lean shape of Sojourner Truth strode tirelessly across the North, carrying the law and the gospel of freedom in its mouth.
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To fathom the nature and operations of the divine upon humanity is an illumination beyond the workaday intellect.
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The resemblance between the words “mystery” and “mysticism” may be mere coincidence to us, but, as Chesterton put it, it is a coincidence that really does coincide.
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From the more obvious moral and intellectual meanings of wisdom, we pass now to something more esoteric.
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Victorian novelist Frank Smedley wrote that “All’s fair in love and war”; though we cannot be sure, Renaissance diplomat Christine de Pizan might have thrown her complete works at his head if she had heard that.
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Chekhov is celebrated for his eponymous gun, but his writing is more like a knife, sharpened to razor-like simplicity.
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Scholars the world over will, doubtless, agree that the greatest artistic embodiment of wisdom in the last hundred years (perhaps, in the last five hundred) was Bugs Bunny.
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Our society has stereotypes of both atheists and religious people; Wiesel sounds more like a Charles Williams character: “Asked if he were a pessimist or an optimist, he replied that he was an optimist and hated it.”
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The Great Conversation:Wisdom—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard Having discussed wisdom as a synonym for knowledge, we may shift to wisdom as a form of moral goodness. As discussed
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