Received: 10 October 2005 Revised: 11 October 2005 Accepted: 11 October 2005 ‘After all, an improviser must anticipate before playing, and composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often, one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.’ The central part of this sentence from ‘Brahms the Progressive,’ one of Arnold Schoenberg’s most renowned and influential writings (in Style a...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the relationship of gratitude to wisdom. Both constructs are conceptually related to self-reflectivity, but they differ in their emphasis on extrapersonal resources. Previous wisdom research has focused mainly on intrapersonal capacities. METHOD In Study 1, 47 wisdom nominees and 47 control participants were interviewed about their most difficult and best li...

depending on his own intellectual system, iqbāl stresses the eastern wisdom of eastern people and muslims and challenges the western schools of thought including materialism and nihilism. his philosophy is composed of reasoning, mysticism, quran, hadith, love, spiritual concern, self-consciousness, awakening, passion and includes transcendental theory and action. he believes that the western ra...

Resul ts : Findings indicate a low level of wisdom-related competence in the analysed sample; participants’ mean total score was M = 156.47 (SD = 61.50) of 364 possible points. Corresponding to previous findings of psychological wisdom research, only few participants reached high scores. The students scored higher in wisdom-relevant dimensions than in wisdom-specific dimensions and higher in kn...