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What does it mean to be wise according to the bible and the philosophy

What is a wise What is a wise

Aristotle teach to us about the wise: "It belong to the wise person to order", "Correspond to the wise to lead and not be led" Book I Metaphysics. Medicine is a science, it is the person who is ignorant of medicine, it is the person who opine of medicine and the person who knows about medicine, the opinion is an intermediate state between knowledge and ignorance, the person who knows about medicine is called a doctor of medicine.
Now wisdom is a science, it is the person who is ignorant, it is the person who opine and the one who knows about wisdom, the lattest person is called "doctor of wisdom". Some "wisdom doctors" in the Bible were Jesus, King Solomon, the prophet Daniel.
A doctor of wisdom is a person trained by the grace of God to teach the divine science. As Aristotle explains in his book Politics only a doctor of wisdom, or wise man,  can generate the necessary social and political changes when a society decays towards its lower state: the government of the "rabble" or "low people"; a doctor of wisdom is the providential leader of the Bible, the redeemer, the rehabilitator of the society and the oppressed.
The concept of Aristotle of the wise coincides with the concept of the magician kings of the Bible, magician in Aramaic means "doctor of wisdom", Jesus descends from Solomon a magician king, so when he is born he receives the visit of 3 wise men, that is, 3 rulers, governants and wisdom doctors.
To  understand better what a wise man or a doctor of wisdom is, we have to see this from the perspective of the threefold division of man: body (eros), soul (philia) and spirit (Agape).
The love is a genre, we love what we desire. There is "eros," the love of lovers; "philia" the love of the soul or the love for the friends and Agape the love for the good.
Philia is the love that is born of the likeness, the love that is born of the desire for happiness and of the virtue. But this love is a selfish love, is not desire the good of the beloved but rather the object of love is the pleasure to see ourselves reflected in the other. This love like "eros" is a concupiscence, explains Thomas Aquinas.
There is a higher level of love in which the good of the beloved is desired, this form of love is called "friendship" by Thomas Aquinas. This form of love arises when the desire for the good prevails and is called Love of Charity, Agape or Love for the Good.
The love for the good is the love of God, remember that we can only atribute perfections to God. We can not attribute to God love, but instead the "love for the good." The love for the good is a spiritual gift, a perfection.
The wise man endowed with this form of love is the fully Godlike person. We all have a certain likeness to God, we are all capable of doing good, but the wise is in who this kind of similarity is most given.
The pursuit of the spiritual life is to achieve this form of love and to be wise as God is wise. Listen and practice the wisdom of God is the way to this pure form of love.

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