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    Wisdom Literature

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    Wisdom Literature Exegesis Paper “Two are better than one” An Exegesis of Qoheleth 4: 1-12 Introduction Two people may be able to solve a problem that an individual cannot. This line is very famous when somebody says‚ ‘two heads are better than one’. But what does it mean when we say‚ ‘two are better than one? This paper attempts to look at the meanings and implications of this particular chapter of the book of Qoheleth. We will try to find out in this inquiry the meaning

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    Socratic Wisdom

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    Socratic Wisdom In the Apology‚ the oracle at Delphi stated that Socrates was the wisest man of his time (Plato 21a). Socrates‚ however‚ “[was] very conscious that [he was] not wise at all”‚ which would not make him the wisest man of his time (21b). Certainly‚ not both the oracle and Socrates could be simultaneously correct in their individual beliefs; thus‚ the oracle and Socrates must have had differing definitions of wisdom. What‚ then‚ is wisdom? Many people believe wisdom denotes having

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    What Is Wisdom?

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    What is wisdom? I would like to start with a quote of Socrates in which he says: „True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life‚ ourselves‚ and the world around us. „ I think wisdom is learning through experience. Like when we love someone and realize he or she is not what we wanted‚ not what we exceptet we learn what we don’t want‚ eventhough we still might not know what we want. I think all of our wisdom consists of things we know that are not good for

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    Hebrew Wisdom

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    Name: John Shisler Course and Section Number: BIBL 105-D23 Hebrew Wisdom on Diligence and Laziness Going through the Wisdom Books of the Old Testament‚ diligence and laziness are a common theme. It is shown many different ways which is viewed more positively and which is looked down upon. Diligence and laziness may be slightly intertwined‚ but they are also completely separate ideas. The books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes provide much of the understanding to be gained from the Bible on all four

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    The House of Wisdom

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    The House of Wisdom The Bayt al-Hikma‚ or House of Wisdom was founded in Caliph Abu Jafar al-Mamun. The goal of the House of Wisdom was to become a wellspring of knowledge by gathering the best scholars and translators to translate the ancient texts from Greece and India‚ and then to further advance Arab sciences. Al-Mamun established the House of Wisdom in hopes that it would bring prosperity to the Muslim empire. In 833 Al-Mamun died and his son Abu Ishaq al-Mutasim ibn Harun became Caliph

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    seem to fit in the general scheme of human evolution‚ and yet they’re misfits. (Jurmain‚ Kilgore‚ Trevathan and Ciochon. p.367) In a way they are like us the modern Homo sapiens but yet are a very different species. But the real question that needs to be answered is “why the Neanderthals were considered a different species than the Homo sapiens and what made them go extinct?” The first Neanderthal remains were discovered in the year of 1856 in Germany. This discovery of a skullcap and partial skeleton

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    Knowledge and Wisdom

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    Socrates is widely recognized as an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy. Despite the fact that there is no real credited work to contribute to Socrates‚ he will always be renowned for being an enigmatic figure made famous through the works of Plato and other ancient Greek philosophers. The spirit of Socrates was always that of an inquisitive‚ curious‚ yet enlightened thinker and that is the attitude he portrayed in Plato’s Euthyphro and The Apology.

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    Boosting Wisdom

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    Boosting Wisdom: Distance From the Self Enhances Wise Reasoning‚ Attitudes‚ and Behavior When it comes to personal situations people often tend to not make the wisest decisions. Researchers in this experiment examine how humans increase their wisdom by simply developing a psychologically distanced perspective. In this experiment researchers investigate how to make people not so self-centered so they can learn to take the bigger picture into account. The researchers proposed that the easiest

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    “Home Floresiensis - The Hobbit” Homo floresiensis (“Man of Flores”) is the name for a possible new species in the genus Homo‚ remarkable for its small body‚ small brain‚ and survival until relatively recent times (www.en.wikipedia.org). Anthropologists Peter Brown of University of New England in South Wales‚ Australia‚ Michael Morwood and their colleagues have argued that a variety of features‚ both primitive and derived‚ identified LB1 (the first skeleton found in cave of Liang Bua) is

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    Andrew Godawa Outline: Homo erectus 1. Introduction/General Information a. A Dutch anatomist named Eugene Dubois is responsible for the discovery of Homo erectus. b. Fossils and remains were found in 1891 on the island of Java. c. Homo erectus is an extinct hominid that lived between 1.6 million and 250‚000 years ago. d. Homo erectus is thought to have evolved in Africa from another human ancestor known as Homo habilis--which happens to be the first member

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