Beyond knowledge: An inquiry into the nature and meaning of wisdom through a hermeneutic reading of selected sufi narratives

• Main Author: Mansukhani, Gansham T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1998
• Subjects: Wisdom; Hermeneutics; Sufi literature; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/794
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper studies the nature of wisdom through a hermeneutic reading of 10 Sufi narratives using a Gadamerian framework. As a result of the study, it was discovered that wisdom can be characterized by the attentiveness to context, the recognition of various states of consciousness, the disidentific...