The Arete Initiative at The University of Chicago has launched a $2 million research program on the nature and benefits of wisdom. Once regarded as a subject worthy of the most rigorous inquiries in order to discern its nature and benefits, wisdom is currently overlooked as a topic for serious scholarly and scientific investigation in many fields. Yet it is difficult to imagine a subject more central to the human enterprise and whose exploration holds greater promise in shedding light and opening up creative possibilities for human flourishing.
from the homepage of the website.
A lead paragraph points to an essay on What Makes Us Wise.
Looks like I may not be the only person looking at these questions. For someone contemplating forming an organization to address the issue, these are not sad developments.
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