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Websites with material of interest for the study of wisdom Section 1. Documents, sources. Lists "meta" sites, containing large numbers of documents (not all of them regarding wisdom). Section 2. Sites. Lists websites with general information regarding wisdom (not everything on the site may be related to wisdom). Section 3. Conferences of relevance to the topic of wisdom. Many works that were extremely hard to access have recently become easily available on the web (for example Suso's Horologium Sapientiae), and more are coming online every day, it seems. I. Documents, sources Bibliotheca Augustana. Bibliotheca latina, Scriptorum latinorum collectio. http://www.fh-augsburg.de/%7Eharsch/a_alpha.html. Large collection of works in Latin, including some rather obscure authors and texts, such as Albertano of Brescia and Petrarch's De Sui Ipsius et Multorum Ignorantia. Nicely designed site and attractively displayed text. Provided by Dr. Ulrich Harsch, "früher tätig als Professor für Kommunikationsdesign und Elektronisches Publizieren im Fachbereich Gestaltung der Fachhochschule Augsburg, seit 1997 [dies] als privates Projekt auf deren Webserver bereitgestellt wird" (Wikipedia).
Bibliotheca Augustana. Bibliotheca graeca. http://www.fh-augsburg. Many useful texts, including the Carmen Aureum Pythagoricum, Epicurus' "Letter to Menoeceus" and Pseudo-Dionysius, "On Mystic Theology" (also Eriugena's Latin translations of the Opera Dionysii). A very nice thing about this site is that you don't have to have a Greek font installed to be able to see the Greek texts. At this point (December, 2007) it has little by Plato or Aristotle. The site does seem to contain the complete Enneads of Plotinus, and has the complete Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius (not accessible through the alphabetical or chronological index--go to Epicurus, then click on the DL link at the bottom of the page). Biblioteca Italiana. http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/index.php. Digital library with over 1700 texts (as of July 20, 2008) concerning the cultural heritage of Italy. Includes works written in Latin, such as Petrarch's. "Biblioteca Italiana (BibIt) è una biblioteca digitale di testi rappresentativi della tradizione culturale e letteraria italiana dal Medioevo al Novecento, promossa dal 'Centro interuniversitario Biblioteca italiana telematica' (CiBit), e gestita dalla sua unità attiva presso l'Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', con il supporto del progetto 'Biblioteca Digitale Italiana'." Christian Classics Ethereal Library. http://www.ccel.org/ Many Christian writers, from the beginning, in English translation. Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum. http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/index.html. A treasury of texts in Latin from the beginning to the 18th century, often with links to translations in English and other languages. "The Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum (CSL) [has] the main purpose of creating a digital library of Latin literature, spanning from the earliest epigraphic remains to the Neo-Latinists of the eighteenth century. Toward this end, we maintain an up-to-date catalogue of all Latin texts that are currently available online, making CSL a single, centralized resource for locating Latin literature on the internet. ¶ In addition to serving as a gateway to texts on other sites, we are also actively working to expand the online corpus, providing hundreds of original Latin texts and translations." Cusanus-Portal. http://www.cusanus-oper.de/s_portal/opera00.html. Contains the complete works of Nicholaus of Cusa in Latin (the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft critical edition). For the links to these, http://urts173.uni-trier.de/~leicht/suche/index.php?action=txt_show seems to be the most convenient. The site also has what appears to be an excellent search tool for locating words and phrases in individual works, and is planning a Cusanus Lexikon. The project is a cooperative effort of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG), the Institutes für Cusanus-Forschung an der Universität und der Theologischen Fakultät Trier and the Kompetenzzcentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Trier. Translations are planned to be posted. (The English translations of Cusa's works by Jasper Hopkins are available at http://cla.umn.edu/sites/jhopkins/.) Documenta Catholica Omnia. http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/. A vast source of literature in several languages, including Greek texts in pdf, pertaining to philosophy, Church fathers, theologians, literature, and documents concerning the Church. Has Plato's Republic I-VIII in Greek (pdf), although the editor is not identified, nor is there an apparatus criticus. (Also available is Jowett's English translation). Plotinus, works by Aristotle, Philo, Apuleius, Seneca, Cicero, in the original languages, Pseudo-Dionysius in English as well as Greek, many other works. Site includes the entire Migne Patrologia Graeca. Over 50 volumes of the Patrologia Latina are online as of January 1, 2008. The Greek texts can be printed, but the Latin cannot be printed nor selections copied, though the documents can be downloaded. There is a full concordance for each of the works! A wonderful feature of the Greek texts is that they can be copied and pasted into an MSWord document retaining the breathing and accent marks, by using Palatino Linotype font. Google Advanced Book Search. http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search. This is a "project to digitize the world's books", which apparently began putting scanned books online in December 2004. Anyone who has an interest in writings from the public domain era will find material of great value here. For example, Pierre Charron's De la Sagesse, the Nouvelle edition of 1836, which has some useful notes. Also available is the 1801 Dijon edition (apparently a volume of excerpts), and two editions of the George Stanhope translation (1707 & 1729). Intratext Digital Library, Bibliotheca Latina IntraText. http://www.intratext.com/LATINA/. A great collection, with easy to use concordances for the texts. I'm not sure how much is relevant to wisdom. Also has translations in English for many works, and some in Italian, such as Giambattista Vico's autobiography. Does not seem to identify the source of the texts. Perseus Digital Library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Has almost the complete works of Plato and Aristotle (along with many other writers of the classical period), in Greek and in English. "The collection contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps." I have never been able to install a Greek font successfully, so Plato and Aristotle at this site remain closed books to me, but that's just me. It is possible to view the correct text by copying and pasting the texts into an MSWord document using Palatino Linotype font. The Philological Museum, Bibliography of Neo-Latin Texts on the Web. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/index.htm "an analytic bibliography of Latin texts written during the Renaissance and later that are freely available to the general public on the Web. . . . The reader may be interested to know that it currently contains 24,000 records." (My last visit was December 9, 2007.) Dana F. Sutton is the producer of this excellent site, which contains many documents valuable for the study of wisdom. Projekt Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/. A rich source for literature in many languages. "There are over 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. A grand total of over 100,000 titles is available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources." Titles relevant to wisdom include Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit, etc., etc. Thesaurus Linguae Graecae www.tlg.uci.edu/ "is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. . . . The web version currently provides access to 3,800 authors and 12,000 works. . . . Information about the authors and the works included in the TLG Library is stored in a database (which) . . . is open to the public and can be searched" from the home page. 2. Sites From Knowledge to Wisdom. http://www.knowledgetowisdom.org/ Group organized by Nicholas Maxwell, "an association of people sympathetic to the idea that academic inquiry should help humanity acquire more wisdom by rational means." Thomistica.net. http://thomistica.net/ "a website devoted to the academic study of St. Thomas Aquinas." Excellent links and news. 3. Conferences Science, Wisdom, and the Future Conference June 2009, San Luis Obispo, California. The objectives of this conference are to:
Assess our current scientific knowledge of individuals, human societies, relationships between societies, and relationship between humanity and its home, planet Earth.
Assess the wisdom, the prescriptions, and the advice of humanists, spiritual, religious, and philosophical traditions, local and national political leaders, and the United Nations and global NGOs.
Consider the interactions between scientific knowledge and cultural wisdom. How can or should they work together to achieve global flourishing?
http://www.epicandfutures.org ____________ melius est, si pauca sapientiae precepta teneas sed illa in promtu et in usu tibi sint, quam si multa didiceris sed illa non habeas ad manum. It is better if you possess few precepts of wisdom, but have them at the ready and in use, than if you have learned many, but have them not at hand. William of Conches, Moralium Dogma Philosophorum I.A.4 |
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