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What is the difference between wisdom and knowledge? We've been debating about those in Philosophy class and no explanation seems right for our professor.
And are there any sights wherein I can find other possible explanations?
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Another difference I see in addition to the previous answers is that there are all kinds of things you may have knowledge of, such as random facts, but someone who knows random facts isn't necessarily wise. Someone, for example, could know the dates and places and outcomes of all of the major battles in the Civil War, but knowing that does not give one the wisdom to understand the causation and repercussions of the civil war. Wisdom is being able to draw meaningful conclusions about things with or without the facts. Wisdom also implies searching out answers and looking beyond the facts at hand to see what happens historically. It also implies the ability to search one's own knowledge, experience, and feelings to come up with an answer. That's my 2 cents' worth.
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well in philosophy there are no truly "right" answers...everything is interpreted differently...you see wisdom represented by an owl or someone older and more intelligent...wisdom comes with age...while knowledge is instilled in us throughout our lives to make us wise. Wisdom is a combination of common knowledge and common sense. Knowledge is just knowing what we learn and what we are taught...stuff that comes out of a book or stuff we learn from those who are wise. Wisdom is instilled over time. We make mistakes that show is what the right decision would have been thus making us wiser in some way. We learn something new every day...not just stuff from books but from life itself. That's the difference..well to me anyway
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I consider it in steps. "The old wise man." Wisdom, seems to be a word that is inherited with age. You earn your wisdom, by learning knowledge. Consider knowledge the verb...and wisdom the noun.
Remember that the reason it is philosophy is because there is no "exact" answer. Philosophy is questions. If it could be answered it would be science.
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