Description

The Search for Wisdom
his is a book about wisdom and its opposite. The book grows
out of a trip that we (Greg and Jon) took to Greece in August of
2016. We had been writing about some ideas spreading through
universities that we thought were harming students and damaging
their prospects for creating fulfilling lives. These ideas were, in
essence, making students less wise. So we decided to write a book to
warn people about these terrible ideas, and we thought we’d start by
going on a quest for wisdom ourselves. We both work on college
campuses; in recent years, we had heard repeated references to the
wisdom of Misoponos, a modern-day oracle who lives in a cave on the
north slope of Mount Olympus, where he continues the ancient rites
of the cult of Koalemos.