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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 1A. Sources for Wisdom in the Western and Middle-Eastern tradition (includes Iran). Section 1B. Sources for Wisdom in the Eastern tradition. 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 Section 1A. Sources for Wisdom in the Western and Middle-Eastern tradition Albertus Magnus http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~albertus/index.html. Seems to contain all the texts of the Borgnet edition, or else of the more recent Cologne edition. Particularly relevant for wisdom are the Ethica, Metaphysica, and Commentarii in B. Dionysii Areopagiticae. 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). Many useful texts, including the Carmen Aureum Pythagoricum, Epicurus' "Letter to Menoeceus" and Pseudo-Dionysius. 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 (January 2010) it has little by Plato or Aristotle. The site does seem to contain the complete Enneads of Plotinus. This is a lovely site, whose digital library is very user friendly, with over 1700 texts (as of January, 2010) concerning the cultural heritage of Italy. Includes works written in Latin, such as by Petrarch (only works in Latin by Petrarch), Boccaccio, and Giordano Bruno. By Ficino, only Commentarium in Convivium Platonis and El libro dell' amore. Galileo: Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi, Salutati: De laboribus Herculis, and Giambattista Vico's Principi di scienza nuova. "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/.) The Cyprian Project. http://cyprianproject.info/index.htm. This site has excellent links to downloadable pdfs of Migne Patrologia Latina and Patrologia Graeca (it seems to contain all volumes, some photocopied versions, and some that are searchable and can be cut and pasted into word processing programs), Patrologia Orientalis (Vols. 1-19, 21-23, 25), The Loeb Classical Library (a number of volumes), and of course St. Cyprian of Carthage. Dr. Rod Letchford has performed an excellent service in providing what appears to be a thorough collection of links. Defining Wisdom http://wisdomresearch.org/. The Arete Initiative at The University of Chicago has sponsored 23 in-progress research projects on wisdom. Also a monthly e-newsletter and updates on the research. Documenta Catholica Omnia. http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/. A vast source of literature in several languages, 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. Plotinus, works by Aristotle, Philo, Apuleius, Seneca, Cicero, in the original languages, Dionysius Areopagita in English as well as Greek, many other works. Site included the entire Migne Patrologia Graeca at one time, but as of 9 September 2010 does not, although most of it is still available. The entire Patrologia Latina seems to be online as of 3 August 2010. Formerly the Greek texts could be copied and pasted, but it seems now that many of them are in photocopies of Migne, often almost illegible. The Latin is available in photocopies of Migne. A wonderful feature of the Greek texts that can be cut-&-pasted is that they can be pasted into an MSWord document retaining the breathing and accent marks, by using Palatino Linotype font. FTP root at furrg.montclair.edu. ftp://pdf0503@furrg.montclair.edu. User ID (also called Login): pdf0503. Password: 5%*+FX#3. This has some valuable material for download. Dr. Furr notes that "These are for individual download, no more than five at a time. If you want a selection of them, please log in several times." 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). Griechische Textstellen. http://www.gottwein.de/Grie/gr_textestart.php. Has selections from many authors, with translation and notes in German. Has material on Presocratics (gottwein.de/Grie/VSInhalt.php). Looks very useful. Last visited January 2010. Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/index.php. Has over one and a-half million texts, some very useful for wisdom. The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. Naturally, several old commentaries, Teubner Greek and Latin texts. Great secondary material. I found Budge's 2-volume Dictionary of Egyptian Hieroglyphics here, thus identifying the ancient Egyptian terms for wisdom, and the sources. Remarkable source. 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. Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek Emden. Sammlung Albert Ritzaeus Hardenberg. http://hardenberg.jalb.de/titeluebersicht.php?letter=B. Appears to have hundreds of photocopied 15th and 16th century volumes of philosophy and natural philosophy. Includes Bovelles' Elementorum Physicorum. They apparently must be viewed one page at a time and cannot be downloaded, which is inconvenient. The Little Sailing. www.mikrosapoplous.gr/en/texts1en.html. This is a very nice site with many Greek texts by Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, Epictetus (Encheiridion) Epicurus (Epistola Tertia ad Menoeceum, Ratae Sententiae), several works by Plato, and other Greek texts. Plutarch's Parallel Lives, and several of the Moralia. All nicely formatted and easy to download. However, not all documents identify the edition. The Links page is worth visiting. Last visited January 2010. Manipulus Florum. Hibernicus, Thomas. http://www.manipulusflorum.com. An influential collection of Latin quotations compiled at Paris at the turn of the 14th century. The site hosts an edition-in-progress and a transcription from an early printed book for the portions that have not been edited yet, as well as much supporting material in English, including the editor's translation of the original preface to this anthology. Neulateinische Wortliste / Neolatin Wordlist. www.neulatein.de The NLW attempts to chart (a part of) the semantic development of Latin between approx. 1300 and 1700. The NLW focuses on new or rare words and on terms which are noteworthy for other reasons, e.g. because they designate concepts of importance for European culture (such as the terms renascentia and modernus), because they influence or are influenced by the vernacular (e.g. penosus, nouella), etc. The contents of the NLW are the result of my own reading [i.e., Johann Ramminger] and a database of Neolatin texts, which at the moment comprises about two million wordforms (including numbers and mistakes). 1 Aug 2010.
Provides a searchable annotated bibliography of a wide assortment of texts, including philosophical and theological treatises, from around 300-1500 and currently available in printed or online editions and translations. Contains references and links to materials available at other sites such as Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies, and the Monastic Matrix. Begun in Summer 2003, by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University. 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." While it offers Greek texts in Greek font, it is still not ideal. For example, the largest division of the Nicomachean Ethics that can be viewed at one time is a single Bekker page. The Philological Museum, Bibliography of Neo-Latin Texts on the Web. http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/ "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 (January 2010) contains over 33,000 records." (December 9, 2007 there were 24,000) 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. Prometheus Trust. http://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/index.html. The Prometheus Trust is a registered educational charity (no. 299648) dedicated to the restoration of the ancient mystery tradition of the west, as a living counterpart to that of the east. This tradition embraces both religion and philosophy and leads its students to the discovery of psychosophy - the wisdom of the soul. The Trust has republished the entire works of Thomas Taylor. This Series represents the most comprehensive survey of the Platonic mystical philosophy in the English language: it not only includes the complete works of Plato and Aristotle, but also most of the surviving works of the late Platonic commentators who revealed the hidden symbology within Plato's writings. The series presents the Orphic hymns, Pythogorean writings, works by such authors as Proclus, Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Julian, Apuleius, Maximus Tyrius, and Pausanias among many others. Suda Online: Byzantine Lexicography. http://www.stoa.org/sol/. Contains the 10th century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia. "The purpose of the Suda On Line is to open up this stronghold of information. . . . Of the 30,000-odd entries in the lexicon, over 25,000 have been translated [into English] as of this date." Easy to search, gives the Greek text, English translation, and other information. You can even type in your search word (in transliterated English) and find all occurrences of the word. Seems to be nicely done. Senior Editor is David Whitehead. Last visited July 2009. 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. This site is useless to me, as I have never been able to install a Greek font on my computer. Over the past 15 years or so I've installed perhaps six of them, but I still never get texts in the Greek alphabet. One of these years, one of these sites is going to provide instructions on how to install a Greek font, and then how to use it. Τοξόλυρος http://www.toxolyros.gr/. The site is in modern Greek with links to a great treasury of ancient Greek texts. Plato, a few works of Proclus, Aristotle, Περί ψυχής among, it appears, most of his other works (unfortunately without the standard Bekker pagination). Epicurus. I have not been able to explore the full site as of June 17, 2010. Note: on the website the texts are in two non-aesthetic fonts; you can copy and paste into MS Word and put them in palatino font to improve appearance. Wikisource. http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Pagina_prima. Has some interesting material as of 2 August 2010, such as the De Intellectibus attributed to Abelard. At this time, there is not much, but apparently more material will be appearing. Nice site. Section 1B. Sources for Wisdom Literature in the Eastern tradition. Shantideva. Bodhicaryavatara. http://www.shantideva.net/. Shantideva Online and the Bodhicaryavatara Historical Project (BHP) is an academic research project commissioned by the Mahabodhi Sunyata de España in Tarragona, Spain. The Resources page also contains valuable online references for all traditions of Buddhism. 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 Evidence for Wisdom: Educating for Wisdom. University of Toronto April 9, 2011 Literacy for Love and Wisdom: "Being the Book" and "Being the Change"
—AEPL 2011 Summer Conference—June 23–26, 2011
YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado
Featuring: Jeff Wilhelm and Bruce Novak This book and conference will work to articulate a new vision of our profession—centered on the facilitation of human connection and personal insight (the “love” and “wisdom” of our title). We will work to show the vital importance of what John Dewey and Louise Rosenblatt called “transactional,” “aesthetic” relationships, in personal growth, in the formation of democratic community, and in general human evolution: bringing about the vivifying interweaving of hearts and minds, and offering an entryway for the life of each human person to be integrated into the web of larger life. And we will share ways of teaching that, by catalyzing the renewal of the self—both through the experience of art and through the experience of artful teaching—serve to deepen our ways of relating to others and the world, making responsive renewal of the self the opening to responsible renewal of the world.... In the next decade or so, we need—and can have, if we put our minds to it—a wisdom revolution, a revolution in human consciousness enabling us to integrate with our habitat and with one another, to dwell consciously with one another and within nature rather than merely further exploiting and living off them. Please come join us as we explore how we can accomplish this revolution in consciousness, in our classrooms and beyond! The 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place May 10-13, 2012. ____________ 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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