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Holistic Wisdom

I conceptualize holistic wisdom as a virtue and ability to timely integrate all known sources of wisdom into a single course of action. Here wisdom includes analysis (e.g., discipline-based and often reductionist normal sciences), synthesis (e.g., discovering or designing a general structure underlying complexity), and phronesis (e.g., emergent paradigm shifts for changing contexts of space and time).

Below is a partial list of holistic thinkers and their representative intellectual works related to holistic wisdom:

· Confucius (551 – 479 BC): Analects

· Plato (427 – 348 BC): Theaetetus, Phaedo

· Aristotle (384 – 322 BC): Nicomachean Ethics

· Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831): Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

· Max Weber (1864 – 1920): Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre

· H.G. Wells (1866 – 1946): World Brain

· Jan Smuts (1870 – 1950): Holism and Evolution

· Elinor Ostrom (1933 – 2012): Understanding Institutional Diversity

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