The question is therefore justified whether the attractive code-name ‘wisdom’ is nowadays not more of a hindrance than a help, in so far as it disguises what stands behind it rather than depicts it properly. As matters stand today, we can only first remove the individual phenomena, as far as is possible, from under this unsatisfactory blanket term and examine them anew from what are, nowadays, rather different points of view. That wisdom has to do with human understanding, that it is a particular