Even the successful acquisition of knowledge can trap us in ignorance and deception. Discovery can dazzle, blinding us to other things we should have known. To realize ourselves as knowing and loving agents, then, it is not enough to acquire items of knowledge or objects of appreciation. It requires the organization and critique of our knowledge and love. Wisdom as “master-workman” demands of us a reflective and critical relation to knowledge, exercised in judging what this or that item of knowledge is worth, how it is contextualized among other items, what it licenses us to conclude and what
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