Incorporating human wisdom
- Integrating knowledge
- Pooling individual wisdom for benefit of society at large
- Channelling personal experiences into communal knowledge
- Providing reservoir of communal knowledge
- Holding communal wisdom
Claim
- How can we quickly and progressively harmonize the proliferation of particular branches of study with the necessity of forming a synthesis of them, and of preserving among men the faculties of contemplation and observation which lead to wisdom? What can be done to make all men partakers of cultural values in the world, when the human culture of those who are more competent is constantly becoming more refined and more complex? (Second Vatican Council. Gaudium et Spes, 1965).