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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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: 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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Though knowledge and wisdom may seem alike‚ they are really very different. They actually only have two things in common - they both involve the mind and both are hard to acquire. Someone who has knowledge would know that a tomato is a fruit‚ but someone who had wisdom would know not to put them in a fruit salad. Anyone can obtain knowledge about anything‚ but only some can use that knowledge and apply it in the best way.Knowledge’ is information of which someone is aware. Knowledge is also used
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MS (Psychotherapy & Counselling); PhD Scholar (IIT Bombay) Associate Professor H. K. Institute of Management Studies & Research‚ Mumbai © 2014. Prof Roy‚ H.K. Institute of Management Studies & Research‚ Mumbai. All Rights Reserved. THE WISDOM OF CROWDS by JAMES SUROWIECKI ISBN: 978-0-385-72170-7 306 PP | Soft Cover US $ 14.95 2005 Watching the popular game show‚ Kaun Banegaa Crorepati (KBC) hosted by Big B on Sony Entertainment Television‚ I always wondered….. whenever‚ the contestant
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Reflecting Wisdom 1 Reflecting Wisdom Janise McWilliams Psych/220 02/09/2014 COLLEEN MOORE The person I am choosing to write about would be my step father. I chose him because he is very Wise and very physiological
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G Scholar Instructor: Wisdom at Mensa October 13‚ 2010 RE: Jung Typology Test My Jung Typology Test The Jung typology test consists of answering approximately 72 yes or no questions in reference to you usual preference and then you get results that hypothetically reveal your personality or personality types. It also shows the strength level of your personality types that are revealed from your responses. After taking the "Jung Typology Test and reviewing the results I was surprised
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Elizabeth Pisani’s The Wisdom of Whores - Bureaucrats‚ Brothels and the Business of AIDS is a great book (along with a great website). Elizabeth Pisani is an epidemiologist with years of experience working on HIV/AIDS (or sex and drugs‚ as she puts‚ which sounds a lot‚ well‚ sexier) at a variety of agencies‚ including UNAIDS. The book is the story of her frustrations at the way the international community‚ national governments‚ NGOS and AIDS activists have dealt with the epidemics‚ as well as her
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No clear-cut characteristics of wisdom Psalms have been charted out. However‚ some scholars offer identifying suggestions with regard to style‚ content and context or life-setting. As we have said‚ wisdom features are found in many of the psalms in the psalter. However‚ the wisdom psalms share certain components in style‚ content and context. These typical characteristics (style‚ content and context or life-setting) have been identified primarily by R. K. Johnston. 1. With regard to style: The use
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Wisdom isn’t bound to specific authorities or contained within political boundaries. The Egyptian Instruction of Amenemope shares a section with the Hebrew Book of Proverbs. Hippocrates’ Aphorisms was probably studied at the Academy of Gondishapur in Persia in the sixth and seventh centuries. The wisdom shared in most of these texts share some similarities. As it can be observed in the above given excerpt‚ humility and honesty are morals which even the Bhagavad Gita denotes. Wisdom is not bound
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