The great question from listeners as always. This one is, what is wisdom? Is it knowledge

combined with moral clarity? What is wisdom? Well, I suppose 18 years into the philosophy project,

we should probably define wisdom. It seems like a wise thing to do and you wouldn't want to rush

these things. So you wait until the show is old enough to vote and then you define wisdom.

Now, of course, these are my thoughts on the subject. It's not a final answer and

subject to your review, revision, to working, it's a working progress. So, what is wisdom?

Successfully, for once in my life, succinctly, I would say that virtue is knowing what to do.

And wisdom is knowing when to do it. Virtue is knowing what to do. Wisdom is knowing when to do it.

I said in my novel, just poor, the truth is not a sword to be drawn at all costs.

So, yes, virtue is good, honesty is a virtue. Does that mean

that you should constantly tell everyone everything about yourself?

Right, somebody says, oh, how much do you make? Well, you don't really want to share that

information, do you? I mean, obviously your family knows, so your wife, your husband,

and all that. How much money do you make? Well, you know, that's kind of private and all of that.

So, you say, well, honesty is a virtue, so I should tell them how much I make.

No. Because if you just say that virtue tells you what to do, then you just program by virtue

and you don't have any free will. So, if you say, well, honesty is a virtue, so if somebody says,

how much do you make? I mean, we're talking about some stranger, not, you know, maybe a close friend,

you share this information with if it's important or whatever, right? But some stranger,

Dinda party says, oh, tell me exactly how much you make and how much you paid in taxes and,

you know, what's in your savings accounts and, you know, what do you invest in, whatever, right?

I mean, it's like, okay, see, if honesty is a virtue, so I'm going to tell the truth. No,

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