THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN WISDOM AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

Abstract

This research study is a secondary review that focuses on the philosophy of human wisdom and human consciousness. Human wisdom is an integrated form of intelligence that is associated with sensibility including the bodily senses and the senses associated with human soul. The senses that are associated with human soul are memory and imagination which most of the philosophers including Descartes, Berkley and Spinoza believed that they are related to human mind. While the other senses are associated with human body. It means that human wisdom comprises sensibility and sound judgement, including both Sophia and Phronesis – the former is intellectual virtue and the latter is meta-intellectual virtue. One intellectual virtue is related to understanding through experience and the other is related to understanding through practice. On the other hand, human consciousness comprises both epistemological and ontological understanding of the social world articulated in human perception. Philosophers focus on four primary aspects of consciousness, which include knowledge, intentionality, introspection, and phenomenal experience, in which experience brings activism or de-activism in human consciousness. In simple words, human consciousness consists of perception and understanding.