Wisdom

Reg Naulty considers a book spanning philosophy and neuroscience

Statue of Socrates | Photo: Photo: Ben Crowe / flickr CC.

Is there any real place for wisdom in our frenetic, postmodern, quasi-apocalyptic, multi-tasking, dual- income, economically challenging world? This is one of the questions Stephen S Hall asks in Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience. He maintains that among ordinary people there is a hunger for any excuse to raise their game and reclaim a better self.

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