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Wisdom is the principal thing
The Book of Proverbs in the Bible that presents the wisdom of all things. Wisdom existed before the world began, by it have been created worlds, "he said. Hence, King Solomon youth councils to first seek the wisdom above all, above rubies, pearls, and whatever classified material blessings in those days. For, where wisdom comes, it comes with all this and more.
Done Interestingly, the word "philosophy" refers to the Greek quest or love of wisdom (phileo which means "love" and sophia which means "wisdom"). Unfortunately, within two and a half millennia after Socrates out, skepticism, relativism, agnosticism and nihilism scribbled their characters on the scroll of the discipline. Ironically, the "philosophy", in modern parlance, is far from being considered as a "love of wisdom." As GK Chesterton wrote:
".. The new rebel is a skeptic, and will not be anything complete confidence. He has no loyalty, so it can never be truly revolutionary. And the fact that he doubts everything really in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine whatever, and the modern revolutionary no doubt that the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. So he wrote a book complaining that imperial oppression insults the purity of the wife, then he writes another book (on the problem of sex) in which he insults himself. He curses the Sultan because the girls lose their virginity Christian and curses, and Mrs. Grundy because they keep. As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is lost time. A Russian pessimist denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to be killed. A man denounces marriage as a lie, and then denounces aristocratic rakes to treat it as a lie. He calls a flag a bauble, and then accuses the oppressors of Poland or Ireland because they take away that bauble. The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were animals, then took his hat and umbrella and goes to a scientific meeting where he proves that are almost animals. In short, the modern revolutionary, being a skeptic infinity, is always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality, in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore a man modern revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. Rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything. "(Orthodoxy, 1908)
Therefore, one wonders if the general modern information system generally leaves a person wiser. While it is agreed that neither education nor intelligence quotient in the modern sense, are badges of wisdom. We often hear remarks about some peasants illiterate or less educated her own mother as having more wisdom to guide the life of an entire education and experience has produced in him / her.
So we ask what wisdom is, after all. While we understand that. So we'll just try to have some words to speak about it. We understand that a person can be wise not because of the many questions it raises, or because of doubts, it throws us in general, understand that this person is wise who is able to solve problems, one who has solutions to problems. We also understand that person to be wise who knows what to do in any situation, one that has the discernment to make the right choices and make the right decision or the way action.
Now a great many of our actions, although not listed on the surfaces are composed of ethical choices. And, choices we made builds its character as a wise or a fool, because these choices determine the quality of its relationships with others. A wise man is easily mistaken for a man of faith, and someone who is reliable as a rock, because he knows the truth and has the character to keep the right principles for action this world. If you look in the scriptures of a religion, it will certainly not find all the answers to moral questions we face in today. For example, the Bible does not tell us whether smoking is good or bad (although it does give us principles to judge our actions in particular). Therefore, laws governing a nation will continue to grow each passing day. But wisdom as the main thing is the key that opens the understanding of discernment what is right or wrong in a given situation. It calculates the time at hand, in view of God, similar, and the eternal consequences. It also calculates the decision regarding the knowledge of what is good, noble and just. Therefore, a wise person company makes other wise, his face sharpens befriend those which like iron sharpens iron.
Of course, like Confucius and many others have rightly noted, while that the material universe is governed by the laws of nature, the psychological world of man is governed by the laws of morality. Immanuel Kant said that there were only two things that surprised him: the starry heavens above and the moral law. In the heart of every man and every woman is written the moral law of God, and certainly a violation of this inner law, not only Mars and distorts its character, but also a point of view of reality. The reality is distorted by transgression of the law of human behavior. The shame, guilt, pride, anguish, anxiety, anger, distrust, distrust, and all conditions disturb the peace of mind are produced by a disturbed connection between the world inside and the outside world by the cord of moral consciousness. It is like a little boy who holds the rope to the kite that flies in the sky. When the rope is broken, the soul is lost. The wise do not fall prey to what the world requires, they listen to the voice of wisdom that gives insight, righteousness and justice, interior, and mature overview. Certainly, faith is the mark of wisdom, while the ignorant wallow in doubt, and the fool is marked by the rebellion that destroyed his own soul.
It is another thing to note about the wisdom. It allows not only the right moral choice, it actually goes ahead and it instills an understanding of the value and goal. Wisdom knows the value of things and their purpose. It begins with an understanding of self and purpose in this world. The skeptic and the wise see the absurdity of the world. Wisdom sees meaning. I once read a quote from someone in Readers Digest that said: "Any jackass can blow down a barn but it takes a carpenter to build it. "Madness invents mental chaos, built the world's wisdom. Therefore, wisdom is known as the main thing. We must, therefore, also in search wisdom, more than anything else. In modern times, materialism has taken over the minds of many young people and their accumulation-oriented life of gold dust or gold dust, either. The Bible says the love of money as the root of evil, a trap or snare and affects only the strings rather than build it. This quest for gold is certainly not the purpose of man on earth. For Aristotle, the ultimate goal of man should be a rational being, because what distinguishes the man of the world gross. The Bible is a little more to the man further and states in search of God, which, although not far from each one of us is still unknown to the soul who is blinded by ignorance. Some have confused the pursuit of God with the pursuit of divinity. Man can not be the Creator. It is pride that rejects this jewel main of wisdom. continued the man of God alone is the pursuit of meaning and purpose, because the Creator knows what that man was created for. Our sense of life is in the mind of God. The New Testament tells us that meaning is communicated to us by the Incarnation of God in man the flesh, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, who through his life, service, death and resurrection told the man what his ultimate reason is, its choice ultimate goal in life. This is not only the sky or the salvation of the Judgement of the Cross of Christ provides for us. It is a life that discerns God's will and it continues because the will of God is good and wisdom is the law of the Good.
Somewhere we can see where the difference lies between the perpetrators of crimes against humanity and love of humanity, symbolizing between Adolf Hitler and Mother Teresa. Deep in the heart of humanity the answer is: wisdom. To know good and do it, the wisdom to break madness.
About the Author
Dean of Post-Graduate Studies, Professor of Theology, Religions, and Missions, Author, Editor of Theological Journal, and Pastor
