Toward a psychology of wisdom and its ontogenesis

著者: Paul B. Baltes, Jacqui Smith - Cambridge University Press eBooks 1990 被引用: 466

The conceptual focus of our approach is to conceive of wisdom as an expert knowledge system (expertise). Specifically, we view wisdom as a highly developed body of factual and procedural knowledge and judgment dealing with what we call the “fundamental pragmatics of life.” The fundamental pragmatics of life concern important but uncertain matters of life. Specifically, they involve knowledge and judgment about the course, variations, conditions, conduct, and meaning of life. Before we describe this approach in more detail, we present some of the historical background and theoretical rationales that have stimulated us to pursue research and theory on the topic of wisdom.