Wisdom Can Probably Best Be

Wisdom can probably best be seen as a combination of experience and intuition. Based on these two pillars, wisdom represents the totality of correct reactions to outside stimuli that an individual might have. The first pillar, experience, shows one of the most important characteristics of wisdom, the fact that it is formed by constant accumulation of knowledge and intelligence.

From this perspective, it is difficult to see someone very young who is also wise, because he has not lived long enough to encounter enough situations which could be the basis for his decision in a similar case. On the other hand, wisdom is also about intuition or good-sense judgment.

The two pillars are however very closely related, because you would need experience in order to build common sense at a later point and intuition, despite the qualities inherited at birth and a certain internal sense that tells you what to do in certain cases, is still based on accumulated knowledge.

More than defining the relationship with other people and reaction to the external environment, wisdom assures a proper response to internal challenges that revolve around the individual perception of life, of the individual role in society, of his future perspectives as an individual. In this sense, wisdom will define an internal perspective that is suitable for the individual and will coordinate his reactions to internal challenges, as much as to the outside ones.

According to Plato and based on his "Apology," Socrates would probably have a different definition on wisdom-based rather on the perception of the individual upon his own self and his own knowledge rather than on his capacity to react to outside stimuli and to properly evaluate situations due to previous life experience and intuition. Socrates would perceive a wise man as a man who has the humility to be able not to see himself as a wise man.

In many ways, according to Socrates, wisdom and humility come very close in terms of meaning. According to the legend, the oracle was asked whether there was anyone wiser than Socrates, to which the oracle replied that Socrates was the wisest. This led Socrates to take his time and research on the other people's wisdom, not believing that he himself was the wisest and knowing that other individuals as well possessed great knowledge.

His findings revealed that other individuals had boasted their knowledge rather than possessing it, while Socrates owns it without boasting it. The interesting thing of the humility wisdom professed by Socrates is that he claims he does not possess wisdom, while the oracle tells him that he does.

The fact that he actually goes to investigate into the matter suggests that Socrates does believe he is wise, but he sees wisdom in relationship with the other individuals (wise individuals in this case), whom he wants to examine in order to determine why he is wiser than all of them. It is more sustainable to.