Toward Wisdom: A Hierarchical Wisdom Ontology based on Chinese Classics

Feng Liu ()
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Feng Liu: Department of E-commerce, School of Information, Xi’an University of Finance and Economics, No. 2 Weichang Rd. Xi’an, Shaanxi 710100, P. R. China

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2015, vol. 14, issue 04, 1-14

Abstract: Based on extensive exploration in Chinese classics, this paper finds a fresh new perspective for KM philosophy especially in pyramid issue: The primary role in knowledge ontology should be consciousness rather than IT aspects, in which the former determines the perceived results such as data, information, knowledge or wisdom. With this domination, this paper presents a novel hierarchy that best solves the quarrel in classic pyramid, and illustrates the crucial issue of wisdom — the finding of a continuous birth and death metabolic cyclic nature called anitya in knowledge. Further, a three layer wisdom hierarchy is suggested based on different levels of understandings: traditional layer, dialect layer and ultimate layer. This paper argues that wisdom should depend on internal concentration while IT serves as an exterior role and never replaces the inner one. Meanwhile, the paper also doubts the classic definition of knowledge and suggests a novel one.

Keywords: Knowledge management; wisdom; mediation; anitya; karma; dharma (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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