This week on the blog, a Fireside chat where I muse on the various things a college degree might be meant to signal:https://acoup.blog/2020/08/28/fireside-friday-august-28-2020/ …
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Is the use of the term "foolishness," as contrasted to wisdom, in deliberate parallel with Gandalf's judgement of Saruman? In reading your aside, it seemed to me that Saruman almost personifies being intelligent, but foolish
It's a dichotomy I've found myself coming back to more and more. Because wisdom or foolishness is about choice, it can both carry moral value (a person who willfully persists in foolishness is a 'bad' person), but also the ability to improve, to be better.
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Whereas intelligence seems to be fixed, it's inborn and uncontrollable. If someone is born smart or not, they can't do anything about that. But they can choose to accumulate wisdom and work to be wise.
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I also like wisdom as a concept because it merges good decision-making with right conduct. And yes, Saruman is an excellent example of a smart fool, both in that he doesn't get what he wants, but also in that his immoral conduct harms himself and others.
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