Golden rule of wisdom?
  • Yohan
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    There is a golden rule when it comes to morality. It seems somewhat universal.
    I was wondering if there is a "golden rule" for wisdom?

    Maybe something like:
    1. Keep an open mind, a humble spirit, a feeling of wonder and curiosity. Remain a student. Don't think of yourself as an expert or know it all.
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  • javi2541997
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    ↪Yohan


    I guess the following papers will answer what you are asking for. Karl Popper developed this Trilemma in his book called: The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

    The Friesian Trilemma
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  • Prishon
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    11mReplyOptions — Yohan

    Golden rule for true wisdom: consider your own worldview, reality, truth, or however you wanna call it, as one among many and not the one and only true one.
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  • 180 Proof
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    To paraphrase Confucius' / Hillel the Elder's formulation:
    Whichever idea lacks sufficient evidence, do not claim it is true or put it into practice.
    (Corollary: Whenever you lack 'skin in the game', do not play that game or advise others to play it.)
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  • tim wood
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    Leaves open questions concerning knowledge-based imperatives.
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  • T Clark
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    "golden rule" for wisdom — Yohan

    "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'" Stephen J. Gould.
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  • 180 Proof
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    To unlearn habits which make me miserable (foolery), and don't be an asshole. — A fool's self-overcoming mantra
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  • Tom Storm
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    Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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  • Wayfarer
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    ↪Yohan
    'Don't try to condense the meaning of the wisdom into a sentence' would be a good start.
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  • Manuel
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    ↪Yohan


    Anyone who claims to be wise, is not.

    You don't look to find it, you stumble towards it.

    Not much of use can be said on this topic, I don't think. Unless you get dragged down some New Age hole of which few people manage to escape. But that's my experience anyway.
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  • 180 Proof
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    Whatever formula or rule we come up with, the context seems to be something like this:
    'Wisdom' is, it seems, a fool's horizon, not his or her destination. Like a drunk or junky, once a fool always a fool – whether or not one actively struggles in recovery against one's condition. We're born fools. It's our congenital birthright (i.e. h. sapiens' species defect): a tendency to fail to learn from failure; our naive (blissful) ignorance of being ignorant; incorrigible complexity-death-reality denials; a suite of cognitive biases; an unconscious repertoire of acculturated paths of least (mental) effort – the varied roots of our frequent misjudgments and facile malpractices which are, more often than not, as self-immiserating as they are compulsive. 'Philosophy as a way of life' is, as I understand it, a discipline of recovery from foolery – one's unwise, or self-blinkered / defeating / immiserating, habits (vices) – through reflective inquiries and practices; to know thy self-the-fool; to be self-overcoming ... like Sisyphus.
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  • TheMadFool
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    Be part of the solution and not part of the problem!
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