" To Be or NOT to Be "

The ultimate, timeless questions of the advocates of wisdom and protracted thought, addressed by ancient philosophers of Greece and likely the older civilizations of the far East surely must not have overlooked the intricate analysis of the intuition of wisdom, and the wisdom derived from intuition.

The question " How can you BE wise if you are not wise "poses a question of self analysis, asking of the soul the ability to instinctively, or intuitively evaluate, question and be aware of the QUALITY and status of any instantaneous existence, or at the very minimum deduce a most-probable status by reason of relativity; perhaps by purity of comparison to other souls or other mechanisms.

To be wise, you must know when you are not wise, or when you are not applying logic.

In process, after making that determination, one may apply open thought and simply use constructive logic, which would, in contemporary understanding, infer a start of wisdom.

The title question as phrased may suggest that a man IS what he does instantaneously, as an example, " Even though I am not "wise" I can be a wise man' , or at the very minimum, become a wiser man, by doing something that is considered to be wise."

To examine one's self, make an evaluation, formulate a conclusion, then instigate proactive measures, doing the " right thing" as a result -seems to be suggestive of the process of "learning to be wise".

For self-entertainment, an arrogant soul might arbitrarily paraphrase the title question as " How Is it even POSSIBLE to be a wise man if you are NOT wise ?" resulting in a philosophical question akin to other equally persistent questions of the same category.

In direct contradiction, a humble man that is not yet considered wise might optimistically phrase the question as: "How can you be(come) a wise man if you are not wise?" in anticipation of future self-improvement and the opportunity to seek knowledge and wisdom.

In posing the question thus, he is exploring possibilities not limited to the present by the phrase "can you be". As an example, the famous quotation "To be or not to be, that is the question" is not limited to definition as a question addressing the present time; the phrase may also be a considered analysis of a specified question of existence in the future.

The question "How can you be a wise man if you are not wise" is not therefore redundancy.
It does pose the comparative hypothesis that man, essentially unwise - may not know in truth what wisdom is, or even be capable of encompassing the minimal but essential scale of evaluation and quickening of the mind necessary to become a wise(er) man .

Within contemporary understanding, however, applied wisdom is experienced application and a total address and analysis of all current fact, data, inferred possibilities and probabilities. The subsequent derivative evaluation, interpolation of all inferred detail and a conclusion or outcome drawn thereby, in turn accord relevance to any given quest or question .
Clearly one must begin the process with thought, humility, determination, and an open mind.

With optimism, all men may open their minds and begin the process with proactive and protracted thought.
Even if you think you are not especially wise, you most certainly can gain wisdom by thinking about it.

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