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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  Of course not. Greatness is a cultural thing, despite the "Character Values and Strengths" attempt to cross cultures. And in the society of today, we are all our own individual culture; some of us merely share similarities with others more. |
I disagree, I believe it was Spinoza (although im sure someone said it before him) that said there is an objective truth of what a great person is. I think the fact that there are desirable values consistently found across a wide variety of cultures, regardless of temporal or physical location, lends support to what Spinoza said.
Or, to come at it from another direction, greatness is indeed a 'cultural thing', but cultures are built by humans, who have a biologically wired idea of what a great person is. There are of course exceptions, but for the vast majority this hold true.
And perspective wisdom would be, by my interpretation, the ability to have perspective, as in the ability to see a problem from many different angles or viewpoints. I admit the words used on my list are a bit awkward but you have to understand that when you're synthesizing values from many different cultures (and languages) into one idea or value, sometimes there simply isn't a good English word for the idea or value being described.