Abstract
In this article I discuss the problem of how we can change our world into a wiser world that is driven by a culture of wisdom inquiry (CWI), i.e., a world that frees humanity from a looming totalitarian catastrophe. How best can we interrogate the traditional wisdom of culture (TWC) that is responsible for the academic institutions of learning, among other kinds of institutions, dogmatically and solely aiming at the acquisition of knowledge and technological prowess (technologisches koennen), instead of the promotion of wisdom and human well-being? What kind of strategic transformations of institutional design, policy and goals within diverse institutions, particularly academic institutions of learning, regionally and globally, are imperative? This article argues from the principle of universal interconnectedness across nature/universe and the fundamental asymmetry of human well-being interests and nature’s well-being interests. From this, the development of a culture of wisdom inquiry as an overarching (allumfassend) methodology of institutional change from within at two levels of analysis is proposed, viz., (1) at the level of the ecological–economic analysis of safeguarding nature’s abundant ecosystems from human greed; and (2) at the level of the transformation of the educational, academic and political–economic institutions, as well as international institutions, that must be dedicated to human well-being.
Highlights
Philosophies 2021, 6, 90 out to be smarter than today’s world? Considering the fact that the world, which is loaded with deadly nuclear weapons, is confronted with the evils of climate change emergency (CCE) and the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 (CVP 2020), the answer to our question is negative
As and when we address this task, we must not fail to ask what has gone wrong with our diverse institutions including the academic institutions of learning and experimental labs such as the Gain-of-Function Virology Institutes [7,8,9,10,11,12]
Regarding the academic institutions of learning and experimental laboratories of science, instead of aiming at the acquisition of knowledge and technology, they must work within culture of wisdom inquiry (CWI) to promote wisdom by solving problems of living and human well-being, while rebuilding a wiser world
Summary
Distributed under the terms and Toward what should the academic institutions of learning aim at, in the most challenging times when they themselves fail to function normally and deliver results?. The present article focuses mainly on the academic institutions of learning among other types of institutions across the world, including the international institutions The question it seeks to address may be formulated as follows: How might these institutions wisely function, contributing to human well-being, within a new framework of a culture of wisdom inquiry (CWI)?. Regarding the academic institutions of learning and experimental laboratories of science, instead of aiming at the acquisition of knowledge and technology, they must work within CWI to promote wisdom by solving problems of living and human well-being, while rebuilding a wiser world. It discusses the question of how the academic institutions of learning, among other institutions, can cope with the global challenges by transitioning from TWC to CWI by taking steps towards the institutionalization of wisdom inquiry At this point, the concepts of universal interconnectedness and Wisdom-in-Design emerge as key-concepts preparatory to the institutionalization of CWI.
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