书目名称 | Teaching for Wisdom | 副标题 | Cross-cultural Persp | 编辑 | Michel Ferrari,Georges Potworowski | 视频video | | 概述 | Emphasis of the book is on whether wisdom can be taught, not on what wisdom is.Practical and personally engaging look at how people at different times and places have engaged the question of how we ca | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The chapters in this volume are all devoted to a single question: Can wisdom be taught, or at least fostered? They span many different traditions and times, which generates both problems and opportunities. The most obvious problem is that of translation. As Curnow points out in the opening chapter, the word ‘wisdom’ is used to translate a variety of terms from antiquity that have only a partial overlap with modern work. It is interesting to consider that the Egyptian word ‘seboyet’ translates as either wisdom or instruction. The same is true of terms from Buddhism or Confucianism, or even the Ancient Greek tradition acknowledged as a source of most current views of wisdom in the West; all the terms drawn from other languages and traditions have only partially overlapping meaning. With this in mind, each chapter can be read independently of the others. However, we have also arranged them in an order that re?ects common themes that emerge despite this diversity. We have not arranged them by geographical region, or historical time, but rather by the sort of educational strategy they advocate to foster wisdom. The ?rst chapter by Curnow provides a basic overview of approaches to teachi | 出版日期 | Book 2008 | 关键词 | Education; George Berkeley; Immanuel Kant; Islam; Learning Sciences; Personeal Transformation; Plato; Relig | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6532-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7660-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-6532-3 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 |
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