My physical science teacher is really into philosophy and is always giving us wierd assignments. Today he today to find out who is documented as the wisest man in history for a test grade. I find this difficult considering i dont really think anyone could be because everyone has a different opinion. But he said so, so hey, i'm researching it. All i can find is Socrates and Confusious. Is one of these the wisest man? I need help. I'm stuck on this one!
2007-12-14 13:25:45 · 5 answers · asked by *AnGiE* 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
King Solomon is a definite possibility.
2007-12-14 13:30:11 · answer #1 · answered by Durango 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don’t know of anyone who describes the Founders that way. But they certainly do deserve much more consideration than contemporary dogma is willing to afford them. They founded a nation unlike anything that had existed before based solely on the ideals which poured out of the greatest minds in history. It was the Enlightenment, particularly the British-Scottish Enlightenment which served as the conceptual framework within which they could mold a give meaning to this new experiment in government. Although it took some time for the best ideals of that government to be realized, the foundation they established has served by the US and many other nations of the world for the best. Now that doesn’t make them the “wisest human being sin the history of the universe” but they certainly have earned their place among them.
2016-03-18 07:35:48 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there can ever be such a thing. But, i strongly disagree when people say Albert Einstien, the man was a crazy goof-ball, yes he was very smart, and quite possibly one of the greatest minds the world has ever known....but these attributes do not make somone wise.
King Solomon...well...he was a king, he had the power to change history.....burn some books, re-write a few....
A true philosopher would never label somone as the wisest, or greatest man anyway....its to narrow minded, there can never be only one answer, your teacher needs to step out side the square.
2007-12-14 15:48:31 · answer #3 · answered by Mitchie P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your physical science teacher is barking up the wrong tree for a good number of reasons.
Does he want to know the wisest person or only the wisest man? Is he assuming that the wisest person was not a woman?
Does he think that some group goes around "documenting" wise people?
Does he think that wisdom can be quantified such that there is one "wisest" person? Is it not more likely that, as you point out, each person has his own assessment of who is wise?
Does he think that, even if there is a wisest person, the person would have made it into the history books or some other form of documentation?
I think your teacher misapprehends the meaning of wisdom. It is very different from intelligence. He might do well to follow the example of Larry Darrell, the character in the Somerset Maugham novel "The Razor's Edge" who, seeking wisdom, went into the Himalaya to ask the wise men about it. He is freezing cold, and reading his book in order to attain wisdom. Finally a smile crosses his face, and begins tearing pages from the book and feeding his small fire with them.
Darrell apparently has understood that wisdom is not gained by the seeking of it.
If there was a wisest person, which I rather doubt, it was some unkown person who understood that fame and wisdom do not go hand in hand. This person went down to the nameless dust, or still lives in obscurity perhaps.
It's rather like People magazine's annual announcement of the list of the world's most attractive men and women. What a coincidence that all of these people, every year, are American or European celebrities. Do we really believe this? Do we believe that out of the hundreds and hundreds of people who have made these lists, year after year, every single one of the most attractive people in the world are American or European models, actors, or athletes?
No, the wisest person will not oblige us this way.
As for Socrates and Confucius, they certainly seem to have had had their share of wisdom. But it is too convenient to think that theywere the wisest of everyone ever to live.
Your teacher should goo looking for the tallest, or the heaviest, or even the fastest or strongest. They are much easier to measure and to find. Leave the wise ones alone.
2007-12-14 13:48:58 · answer #4 · answered by moonspot318 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Wise People In History
2016-11-11 00:22:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Solomon is definetly the wisest man recorded in history. In the bible it says that there never has been nor will there never be one as wise as Solomon. If you research it further u will see that most of the ideas and beliefs of the other "wise" people in the world's history branch off of him.
2007-12-14 15:31:32 · answer #6 · answered by ohnedich1717 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe your teacher wants to hear your opinion. Who do YOU feel is the wisest person in history?
For me it's who ever made the Chinese handcuffs.
easy way out lol
2007-12-14 13:50:14 · answer #7 · answered by cj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Socrates.
The oracle of Delphi stated this.
In philosophy this is the answer.
Socrates states something as following. " I do not know nothing, and I admit it. But everyone states that they know something, although when I ask him to describe or define it to me they can't."
This can be read in Euthyphro, when the priest could not answer to Socrates. Blah..blah..blah.blah.etc etc etc.
2007-12-14 13:51:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Albert Einstien
2007-12-14 13:29:44 · answer #9 · answered by Taylor M texas 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Mr. Bean
2007-12-15 01:05:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋