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Practical wisdom : the right way to do the right thing / Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwartz, Barry, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wisdom.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Conduct of life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In their provocative new book, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe explore the core idea of "practical wisdom"-the essential insights we must embrace to lead satisfying lives. Aristotle identified it millennia ago and new scientific research proves that it's just as crucial today: the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual experiences with our empathy and intellect. But we have forgotten this, and Schwartz and Sharpe illuminate how to get back in touch with our wisdom. The result is a book that helps us understand that wisdom is above all a practical idea. Practical Wisdom shows us how to identify it, cultivate it, and enact it, and how to make ourselves healthier, wealthier, and wiser. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- What wisdom is and why we need it
- Introduction: the need for wisdom
- What wisdom is : the janitor and the judge
- Balancing acts : why wisdom is practical
- The machinery of wisdom
- Born to be wise
- Thinking with feeling : the value of empathy
- Learning from experience : the machinery of wisdom
- The war on wisdom
- Ruling out wisdom : when judges stop judging and doctors stop prescribing
- Eroding the empathy to be wise
- Right by rote: overstandardization and the rise of the canny outlaw
- The war on will
- Demoralizing institutions
- Sources of hope
- System changers
- Wisdom and happiness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-315) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Howard R. Jachman Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781101475188
- 1101475188
- Publisher Number:
- 99988172314
- 9781594487835
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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