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1 Why does the author compare this world to a magnetic field? Discuss.
2 How does a wise man act in this world which is full of virtues and vices? Explain briefly.
3. How can a wise man survive adverse situations in life?
4. A man of wisdom acts rightly at the right time, he does not make haste. Why and how does he do so?
5. What type of behaviour is expected of a wise student in the school? Why?
6. Wisdom is the real treasure of a person. How?
7. Give the summary of this lesson in your own words and say what the author expects us to do?
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Answer:
A wise man, or wise person I should say, acts to reconcile the two with understanding. That is to assume there can be a stable relation between the two.
Morally speaking, we can’t equate the vice of murder with something good. There are, however, vices we often overlook. Vices like eating more food than what our body needs, telling lies we think are harmless, getting attached to material wealth and goods. Anything we do out of selfishness, without ever considering how our actions effect others, can often be viewed as a vice.
However, there is a flip. The other side of the coin, so to speak: Virtue. I speak on virtue a lot, and I do personally think it’s good to live a virtuous life, but it’s also important to remember that we are human, and therefore we are not perfect. Anyone who only acts virtuously, that is to say, only acts in accordance with order instead of chaos, becomes rigid and stale. Like hardened bread, they lose flavor.
Jordan Peterson provides a great example of this by utilizing the imagery of going into a person’s home. If their home is a complete mess and utterly chaotic, then they need order to improve their life. If, however, their house has too much order (too much virtue, perhaps); everything is clean, the carpets are vacuumed perfectly, there’s plastic on the furniture; the house is ruled by an obsessive tyrant. There’s no chaos to counteract their imagined perfect world.
The mind of the wise person seeks balance between the two. Chaos and order, vice and virtue, peanut butter and jelly. It’s easy to allow one thing to overshadow the other.
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