Wisdom in Old-Time Self-Treatment

Collective Wisdom Old and New

Jeremy Waldron (1995) has felicitously labeled this argument “the doctrine from the wisdom of the multitude.” Most commentators agree that the mechanism accounting for the superiority of a group over any of its members is, in Aristotle’s view, the pooling of information and arguments that occur in deliberation. The idea of collective wisdom is new, on the other hand, to the extent that it has r...

Wisdom and life satisfaction in old age.

According to previous research findings, objective life conditions such as physical health, socioeconomic status, financial situation, the physical environment, and social involvement cannot fully explain the well-being of older persons. Instead, personality characteristics and developmental influences appear to have a stronger impact. This study combines personality and individual development ...

Second HAREM: New Challenges and Old Wisdom

Discussion of the Second HAREM: changes to the guidelines, introduction of new tracks, improvement of evaluation measures and description of the new evaluation resources.

Interrogating the age-old wisdom of exercise.

W e have long known that exercise is good for us. Hippocrates declared more than 25 centuries ago that " if we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. " There is now a wealth of evidence indicating that the benefits of physical activity extend across multiple organ systems and span t...

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