Sapience is often defined as wisdom, or the ability of an organism or entity to act with judgment. Wisdom is a concept of personal gaining of Knowledge, Understanding, Experience, discretion and intuitive understanding, along with a capacity A value judgment is a Judgment of the Rightness or Wrongness of something or of the Usefulness of something based on a personal view Judgment is a mental facility that is a particular form of intelligence or may be considered an additional facility, above intelligence, with its own properties. Intelligence (also called intellect) is an Umbrella term used to describe a property of the Mind that encompasses many related abilities such as the capacities Robert Sternberg [1] has segregated the capacity for judgment from ordinary meanings of intelligence, which is closer to the sense of clever than to wisdom. Robert J Sternberg (born December 8, 1949) is an American psychologist and psychometrician and the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University Good judgment in making decisions about complex life or social decisions is a hallmark of being wise.
The word sapience is derived from the Latin word for wisdom, sapientia. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Wisdom is a concept of personal gaining of Knowledge, Understanding, Experience, discretion and intuitive understanding, along with a capacity [2] Both are related to the Latin verb sapere, which means "to taste, to be wise, to know"; the present participle of sapere forms part of Homo sapiens, the Latin binomial nomenclature created by Carolus Linnaeus to describe the human species. For English usage of verbs see the wiki article English verbs. Human beings, humans or man (Origin 1590–1600 L homō man OL hemō the earthly one (see Humus Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for Human beings, humans or man (Origin 1590–1600 L homō man OL hemō the earthly one (see Humus In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. Linnaeus had originally given humans the species name of diurnus, meaning man of the day. But he later decided that the dominating feature of humans was wisdom, hence application of the name sapiens. His chosen biological name was intended to emphasize man's uniqueness and separation from the rest of the animal kingdom.
See also
- Sentience
- Self-awareness
- Metacognition - considered to be one of the definitions of sapience
References
- ^ Sternberg, Robert J. (2003). Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive subjectively. It is an important concept in the philosophy of Animal rights, in buddhist philosophy and in Self-awareness is the concept that one exists as an individual separate from other people with private Thoughts. Metacognition is the Knowledge (ie awareness of one's Cognitive processes and the efficient use of this Self-awareness to self-regulate these cognitive Robert J Sternberg (born December 8, 1949) is an American psychologist and psychometrician and the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80238-5.
- ^ (1963) Latin Dictionary. Oxford University Press.
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