Scholarship vs wisdom

Actually, the final guy fails in this example to bring the other 3 back to life. The first 3 bought a tiger to life. Any of them could have helped to bring the bones of the eaten scholars back to life. So the moral of the story is...

It is better to go to Eton College!!! :D
 
The scholar is often very knowledgable about the things in books, but this does not mean he has common sense. The first three had the scholarly knowledge to bring the tiger to life but they all lacked the common sense to understand the consequences. The wise man has the common sense to see the consequences of action and acts ahead of time.

The difference is the scholar can only see that which is written. If it is not in the book, he is often lost. He is trapped in the box. The wise man is able to move into and out of the box, but is more comfortable out of the box in the common sense future. The three are stuck in the box with the tiger, while the wise man leaves the box, so they can play. He did warn them to leave, but they are stuck in the box.
 
nitram22 said:
Well the first item that comes to mind to reply on has to be.....
anyone with true wisdom would NOT use or refer to any symbol, sign, or example that infers that one race may be better than another. True wisdom would be without judgement against the potential of any example of free thought as to truth. A swastika, as an example, shows an inbred, limited, and uneducated point of view.
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Er, no. Wrong context. Why don't you Google 'swastika'? Hm. . .wikipedia's the first result. . .

Oh hey, look at the top picture.

What I see here is a point of view limited enough to not consider the idea that he is talking about Eastern religion(which obviously screams white supremacy), so maybe you should read up to see if you're missing something. Like you were.

Oh, and by your words, wisdom is without judgment against the potential of free thought-yet not only you judged his thoughts, you did so with an ad hominem attack that wasn't even true. How exactly did you think this was going to support your point of view?
 
rcscwc said:
Moral: Draw your own.
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A possible moral:

A parrot who lived with a nihilist might coincidentally almost prevent some scientists from creating a GM catastrophe.

And scientists in the GM industry should each be handcuffed to such a parrot.
 
rcscwc said:
Nope. Tiger stands for TIGER. Tiger was used in the parable because being newly resurrected it would be hungry. An elephant would have ambled away. A dog could not have killed the three scholars.

It was foolish application of knowledge that resurrected the tiger. The wise went up a tree and saved himself.
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Wonder how this wisdom can be applied to US contexts. We have a bunch of technologies that people create that we don't really know how to deal with and can be easily neglectful with: cars, guns, weapons of mass destruction.

What would be the metaphorical going up the tree and saving ourselves from the reach of these technologies?
 
The main difference between knowledge and wisdom is you can memorize or learn knowledge but you can't memorize wisdom. To create wisdom, you need to put you knowledge in action, collect experience and then synthesize this into a set of flexible principles.

Scholarship is the beginning of wisdom. If the scholar is placed in a position where he needs to test and challenge his knowledge in the real world, his experiences and his synthesis will also give him wisdom in his field. When an unknown appears, he is the go-to guy because wisdom can go where knowledge stops.
 
Your Income said:
Wonder how this wisdom can be applied to US contexts. We have a bunch of technologies that people create that we don't really know how to deal with and can be easily neglectful with: cars, guns, weapons of mass destruction.

What would be the metaphorical going up the tree and saving ourselves from the reach of these technologies?
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No need to run awaqy from sceince and technology. But at least you can use them safely. After the man who survived had cautioned his friends to be careful and cautious about their experiment.
 
rcscwc said:
No need to run awaqy from sceince and technology. But at least you can use them safely. After the man who survived had cautioned his friends to be careful and cautious about their experiment.
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If there is a dollar to be made out of some wrong doing someone will take the chance. :)
 
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