Resumo

ETXEBERRIA MAULEON, Xabier. Of Wisdom in Old-Age. En-clav. pen [online]. 2021, vol.15, n.30, e469.  Epub 06-Set-2021. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i30.469.

After reading the considerations that follow, one could draw the conclusion that wisdom in old age is only within the reach for those who can elaborate it through explicit and complex introspective processes, which in general presuppose a certain level of academic training. These, of course, are present in the group of older people who try to cultivate it. But living this wisdom -what matters- goes far beyond this. It also includes those who nourish it with vital reflections that are not expressly stated, unstructured and quasi-spontaneous around what they are living, which are rooted in a kind of psycho-moral intuition that is certain to advance, with age, in the maturation of personal experience and perception of reality; which, evidently, translates into the corresponding behaviors. The testimony of older people of all kinds and conditions, which we all know, is there to prove and show it. These lines intend to give, without the intention of being exhaustive and from the recognition of the plurality of approaches, an argumentative framework, a motivation and even an orientation to such a wide reality, lived in the greatest diversity by many elderly people.

Palavras-chave : wisdom; old age; life-experience.