Practical wisdom the right way to do the right thing
The authors explore the insights essential to leading satisfying lives. Encouraging individuals to focus on their own personal intelligence and integrity rather than simply navigating the rules and incentives established by others, "Practical Wisdom" outlines how to identify and cultivate...
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New York :
Riverhead Books
2011
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| Edición: | First Riverhead trade paperback edition |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007702399708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What wisdom is and why we need it
- Introduction: the need for wisdom
- What wisdom is : the janitor and the judge
- Balancing acts : why wisdom is practical
- The machinery of wisdom
- Born to be wise
- Thinking with feeling : the value of empathy
- Learning from experience : the machinery of wisdom
- The war on wisdom
- Ruling out wisdom : when judges stop judging and doctors stop prescribing
- Eroding the empathy to be wise
- Right by rote: overstandardization and the rise of the canny outlaw
- The war on will
- Demoralizing institutions
- Sources of hope
- System changers
- Wisdom and happiness
