intellectual wisdom
Excerpt from Conjugial Love 163:
Various terms are used to designate the things having to do with men’s
intellectual wisdom. In general, they are called knowledge, intelligence and
wisdom; and in particular, rationality, judgment, genius, learning, sagacity.
But because everyone has special kinds of knowledge peculiar to him in
his occupation, these kinds of knowledge are therefore many and various. For
there are special kinds of knowledge peculiar to clergymen, to civil officers,
judges, physicians and pharmacists, soldiers and sailors, craftsmen and
workmen, farmers, and so on.
To intellectual wisdom belong also all the fields of study to which
adolescents are introduced in schools, and through which they are afterward
led into intelligence; such as philosophy, physics, geometry, mechanics,
chemistry, astronomy, law, political science, ethics, history, and many more,
through which, as through gates, one enters into intellectual pursuits, from
which comes intellectual wisdom.
(WEO)
moral wisdom
Excerpt from Conjugial Love 164:
Virtues which have to do with men’s moral wisdom likewise have various names,
such as: temperance, sobriety, integrity, kindliness, friendliness, modesty,
honesty, helpfulness, courteousness; also diligence, industriousness,skillfulness,
alacrity, generosity, liberality, magnanimity, energy, courage, prudence, and
many others.
Spiritual virtues in men are love of religion, charity, truthfulness, faith,
conscience, innocence, and many more.
These virtues, both moral and spiritual, can be attributed in general to a
man’s love and zeal for religion, for the public good, for his country, for his
fellow citizens, for his parents, for his wife, and for his children.
In all of these justice and judgment prevail. Justice has to do with moral
wisdom, and judgment has to do with intellectual (rational) wisdom.
(WEO)
prison and hell
Part of this year’s What Would Love Do? Journey Program focuses on the virtue
of “coming to” those in prison and what this means in our lives. Few people
really experience coming to someone in prison. It is not as easy or appealing
as visiting someone in the hospital. Back in my journalist days I spent a day
touring a large state prison and it was a chilling experience. Once those gates
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