Abstract
Wisdom is absent from current public life, even though the complex and systemic nature of the challenges of the twenty-first century seem to be an ideal match. The reasons are primarily structural in nature, that is, the success of the economic perspective. The economic perspective aims at economic growth, whereas the goal of the wisdom perspective is to truly enhance and sustain life. These two perspectives often are at odds. Attempts to remedy this situation need to focus on the systemic level, considering the economic perspective, and transcending it. As the law plays an important role in maintaining the power of the economic perspective, specifically selected judges may play an important role in providing a stage for the wisdom perspective in the twenty-first century.
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Legal code is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover an area of laws or the whole system of laws as it existed at the time the code was enacted, by a process of codification. Codification is the process of converting and consolidating judge-made law and statute law.
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Staudinger, U.M. (2019). Can Wisdom Be Helpful?. In: Sternberg, R., Nusbaum, H., Glück, J. (eds) Applying Wisdom to Contemporary World Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20287-3_9
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