ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an analysis of the concept of wisdom and considered a number of different approaches to how might understand it. Attempts to teach wisdom as if it was a school subject are doomed to fail. Learning about virtue in ethics classes is unlikely to be very successful. Knowing what the virtues are, being aware of different moral theories, and being familiar with the broad principles of ethical decision making is not enough to produce virtuous and wise persons. There are numerous examples that abound about the lack of morality in institutions of which we would expect better. In the City of God, Augustine compares the human city to the eternal city, arguing that the city of God is one characterised not be selfishness, but by self-sacrifice for the other, since this is what brings human beings close to God. There is no alternative There is only one end, only one good.
