Wise Person

A Wise Person is a person who is a wise agent (who makes wise choices).

• Context:
  • They can (often) be a Smart Person, Well-Read Person.
  • They can range from being a Consequential Wise Person to bein an Average Wise Person to being a Inconsequential Wise Person.
  • They can range from being a Courageous Wise Person to being a Cautious Wise Person to being a Cowardly Wise Person.
  • They can range from being a Famous Wise Person to being a Less Well-Known Wise Person.
  • ...
• Example(s):
  • Less Well-Known Philosophers, such as: G. E. M. Anscombe.
  • Less Well-Known Wise Activists, such as: Jaggi Singh.
  • Famous Wise Philosophers, such as: Plato.
  • Famous Wise Scientists, such as: Marie Curie.
  • ...
  • Famous Wise Activists:
    • Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).
    • Emma Goldman (1869-1940).
    • Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948).
    • Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
    • Eleanor Roosevelt.
    • Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968).
    • Noam Chomsky.
    • Peter Singer.
    • Howard Zinn.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Unwise Activist, such as: Maximilien Robespierre.
  • an Impulsive Person.
  • a Megalomaniac Person, such as: Adolf Hitler.
  • a Obedient Bureaucrat, such as: Adolf Eichmann.
• See: Conscious Mind, Kohlberg Moral Stage.

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References

2011

• (Brooks, 2011) ⇒ Davide Brooks. (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens." Short Books. ISBN:1780720009
  • QUOTE: There's no evidence to suggest that people get automatically wiser as they get older. The tests, such as they are, that try to assess “wisdom” (a combination of social, emotional, and informational knowledge) suggests a kind of plateau. People achieve a level of competence on these tests in middle age, which holds steady until about age seventy-five. ...

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