The Sword and the Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires ENC Youth many people turn to self-medicating

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The Sword and the Stylus: An Introduction to Wisdom in the Age of Empires ENC Youth many people turn to self-medicatingThe all too frequent disregard of historical and social contexts by many wisdom scholars often leads to the distortion of this literature and transforms its teachings into abstract ideas lacking any incarnation in the social and historical world of human living. Leo Perdue here argues from a sociohistorical approach that the proper understanding of ancient wisdom literature requires one to move out of the realm of philosophical idealism into the flesh