Wisdom, crieth aloud in the streets.

She uttereth her voice in the broad places.

She calleth at the head of the noisy streets, at the entrances of the gates, in the city she uttereth her words.

How long be thoughtless will you love thoughtlessness?

And how long will scorners delight them in scorning and

fools hate knowledge turn you at my reproof.

Behold I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will make known my words unto you.

All right, we are back in the Build A Soul Workshop here, courtesy of Young Herritics, and that was the famous call of wisdom from Proverbs chapter one.

The Bible's book of Proverbs, first chapter opens up

with this picture of wisdom crying out to mankind in the streets and no one hears her.

I think that this is probably the hardest virtue to talk about if you've been following along with the virtues, the cardinal virtues of classical antiquity, and then we're going to move on to

the Christian virtues. And in some sense we've been leaving this to last or we've been leaving wisdom out of the picture because so far we've talked about two virtues we've talked about moderation which is the ability to control and choose between your desires, decide which ones are pointing in the right direction and which ones need to be resisted and when.

And we've talked about courage, which is the virtue of the thumas, the heart or the chest, your anger, your indignation, your spirit, how do you direct that toward what is good so that your courage, your virtue of Andrea, manliness even or just

spirit and vitality, how can that be directed in the service of the good?

It becomes kind of the enforcer of the things you know to be right and true

when your desires are pulling you every which way, when the many-headed beast within you is roaring out,

you know, all these different tones, how do you keep that in check, how do you execute on what you know to be right,

even though you're scared, even though you want other things that's your

courage that's your Thumos your Andrea and I have been talking as if these are virtues of

specific parts of the soul you know basically, basically your desires, you're a

pettitive part, the part of you that just wants things, that's what gets kept in

check by so frasune by moderation. Your thumos, your spirit, your chest, your heart, that's what gets kept in check by Andrea, by courage.

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