Practical wisdom: the right way to do the right thing

What wisdom is and why we need it

Introduction: the need for wisdom

What wisdom is : the janitor and the judge

Balancing acts : why wisdom is practical

The machinery of wisdom

Born to be wise

Thinking with feeling : the value of empathy

Learning from experience : the machinery of wisdom

The war on wisdom

Ruling out wisdom : when judges stop judging and doctors stop prescribing

Eroding the empathy to be wise

Right by rote: overstandardization and the rise of the canny outlaw

The war on will

Demoralizing institutions

Sources of hope

System changers

Wisdom and happiness.