Tag: wisdom
We’re excited that you’ve joined the conversation! At HMU, we want to continue the great authors’ conversations in a contemporary context, and this blog will help us do that. We look back to Aristotle and the early philosophers who used reason and discourse to gain wisdom and now we endeavor to do the same every day.
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August 21, 2026
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
The Book of Job is listed among the Wisdom books in the Bible. So part of my mission with the July Quarterly Discussion was to better understand what wisdom it imparts.
Chapters 28 and 32 of the Book of Job are the only chapters that directly address wisdom, according to the Syntopicon.
August 7, 2026
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Before I selected the Book of Job as the focus of the July Quarterly Discussion, I knew a little bit about Job. I’d heard snippets at church, an occasional reference to the plight of the unfortunate, and the question “why do bad things happen to good people?” Honestly, that’s all that I knew of Job. So, imagine my surprise to read forty-two chapters of gorgeous poetry!
October 6, 2023
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
I recently attended a conference in which the speaker mentioned that, despite all of humanity’s vast resources, there has been no visible or recognizable increase in human wisdom. The speaker desired proof of some growth in wisdom which would demonstrate that, over time, humans learn from their mistakes. In the speaker’s estimation, current cultures should theoretically be much wiser than their predecessors after thousands of years with mythology,