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Wisdom and love in hominization

28 Nov

Wisdom is not the same as intelligence, culture or cunning, it is something clear and pure that is full of life, so it is also a virtue, called cardinal along with justice, fortitude and prudence.

Culture is linked to the cultural tradition of peoples, it can and must be linked to wisdom because it is the only path that can help the process of civilization (or hominization as Edgar Morin calls it) become a safe and sustainable path.

Those who need to dominate by force walk the path of power, there may be something of intelligence there, in general there is, but it is used in the opposite direction to civilization, the argument that wars have helped evolution is only valid because they have learned bitter lessons from war, which they could have learned if intelligence were truly high and imbued with love.

Cunning is the most dangerous intelligence because it is generally linked to power and oppression, it creates intelligent paths, but they are full of traps for oneself and for others, it is not a path of solidarity and communion between peoples and cultures.

Cunning is the most dangerous intelligence because it is generally linked to power and oppression, it creates intelligent paths, but they are full of traps for oneself and for others, it is not a path of solidarity and communion between peoples and cultures.

So the virtue of nature is the one that brings man closer to divine consciousness, or to our divine consciousness, and in this way man finds a solid path to his hominization.

The wise man knows how to live in poverty and wealth, he knows how to control himself in war, prudence is the virtue that is most allied in this respect, he knows how to live in peace, he doesn’t get agitated by it because he knows that it is the true state of grace, those who need goods or abundance to live well are closer to vices than to virtues.

Along with love, the virtue of wisdom contains the others, together with prudence, courage (fortitude) and justice, not that of men, which is imperfect and without mercy, but divine justice.