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Knowledge and wisdom

Summary/Abstract: In the specialist literature, especially related to IT, it is easy to find a review about the relationship between the concepts: data-information-knowledge-wisdom. In this article the author confronted the last two terms of the chain knowledge and wisdom. The main question was whether these terms mean essentially the same human property and whether one of them can replace the other? Presented in the article, the characteristics of both concepts (albeit very limited) allows to formulate an answer: both knowledge and wisdom they are two different dimensions of human personality, and both are necessary to him. They have different roles to meet. Wisdom is a kind of compass indicating the purpose and course of action. The knowledge is essential to evaluate the potential to achieve this purpose and the selection of ways to achieve it. Reducing person to only one of them deform the human figure and reduce it to the role of an intelligent robot, much knowing but uncritically.

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