Leghorn

@"Benj96" My assumption was that nature is a fixed thing for the individual, something determined by his or her genetics.

You might, by your better nature, overcome an adverse upbringing, or that earliest education may thwart the inclinations of your better nature. On the...

@"Benj96" It’s the old nature vs. nurture problem: you are born with a certain nature, but your upbringing and life experience may either counteract t...

@"Benj96" Do you mean like someone who naturally cares little for money, and so cannot be commended for not being greedy, while the avaricious man mus...

In other words, chance is an equal factor in all sports...except on the last play...huh?

@"LuckyR" I’ll tell you what I think it was... During a rally many shots may be made and a lot of time taken up. If after all these shots one ends up ...

@"LuckyR" To be sure there is a movement in all of sports to shorten the time that contests take...but that is a separate discussion. But my question ...

@"synthesis" I would say not, since a baseball game could be called a tie after the regular nine innings. Are you familiar with tennis? If you are, wh...

@"Possibility" You said that when someone thinks of an acute angle, that the thought is temporal, the angle atemporal. You also said, however, that th...

@"magritte" I disagree with you... Wester philosophy doesn’t consist of discussions of MINOR points made by Plato, but rather MAJOR ones. For example,...

@"Possibility" So, if you and I were discussing the properties of acute angles, you would require that I draw one before you be assured that we were t...

@"synthesis" How does calling a baseball game a tie after 12 innings reveal or promote honor?

@"deusidex" My recommendation regarding an English reader of Plato: firstly, “The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Platonic Dialogues”, ed...

@"deusidex" Are you good at learning languages? Not just the spoken ones, but the “dead” ones? Then I suggest you do. If you’re young you have plenty ...

@"Harry Hindu" and @"TheMadFool" I think I got y’all mixed up in my response, so just switch the names...my bad.

@"Harry Hindu" Your idea of the ancient notion of the relationship of reason and the emotions is not quite right. They thought, not they we should exc...

@"synthesis" Funny (or sad) that a man who taught “sports ethics” for so many years had no answer to you basic question. I would question his credenti...

@"Possibility" Do you not agree that an acute angle is one of less than 90 degrees?

@"deusidex" just a couple admonitions... Are you reading translations or do you read in the originals?...because you can’t trust translators, who tend...

@"deusidex" There is no particular order in which you should read the philosophers...or rather, the order should be determined in this way... When you...

@"synthesis" This is an interesting topic. I was once, in my youth, a tournament-level tennis player. During my career I witnessed just how, in other ...

@"Possibility" Thanks for the explanation of the “Bannings” thread. When I think of an acute angle, assuming I and you both correctly conceive what an...

“This discussion is closed to new comments”...???

Just tried to post something on “Bannings”, and was told no more posts allowed on that thread...what’s up with that?

Just remember, however, when suspecting someone of plagiarism, quod verum est, meum est.

@"TheMadFool" I was offended by Merkwurdichliebe not long ago in the Coronavirus thread when he responded to one of my posts with extremely scurrilous...

@"eduardo" “what would be the motivation to harm someone?”...Eduardo! What planet do you live on? (I would like to move there). I won’t wear my thumb ...

@"TheMadFool" Didn’t the OP get deleted from this entire site because of the very un-peaceful language he used in anger to address a fellow poster? I ...

@"Possibility" When you conceive of an acute geometrical angle in your mind, is that angle temporal or atemporal?

@"TheMadFool" So wisdom appears to be a certain higher ineffable faculty that anyone might possess to be used when his particular knowledge fails. Wou...

@"Possibility" Given that you think wisdom is simultaneously both possible and impossible, are there other things about which you hold the same opinio...

@"Possibility" Would you agree that wisdom is either possible or impossible, but that it cannot be both?

@"TheMadFool" Your latest post seems to suggest that you believe that the wise man is not a particular sort of human being, but rather an inherent per...

@"Brett" Thank you Mr. Brett! You prove yourself to be both a scholar AND a gentleman.

@"Brett" I apologize for having led the discussion away from the OP. I was mislead by the comments of a couple of the interlocutors and wished to pres...

@"TheMadFool" Well, first of all, my question to you did not imply that there is absolute and perfect knowledge in any field. It rather assumed that, ...

@"Possibility" are you saying that wisdom is both possible and impossible?

@"Possibility". Let me help you out here, Mr. Possible: what you are trying to say is that wisdom and the wise man truly exist—as ideals: true wisdom ...

@"TheMadFool" If you were diagnosed by a doctor as having cancer, and wished to get a second opinion, perhaps suspecting that that doctor’s opinion mi...

@"Possibility" but you didn’t address the other half, Mr. Possible, of my question: is the wise man a fiction?

@"Possibility" We’ll, it seems you DID answer for Gilly, Mr. Possible, to judge by his approval of your statement about wisdom and the wise man. From ...

@"jgill" I can only assume, by your repetition of what you just said, that you believe wisdom not to exist at all, which is really quite remarkable gi...

@"jgill" Are you suggesting, Gilly, that the wise man doesn’t exist, or that The Mad One’s description of him is false? How would you describe the wis...

@"TheMadFool" Let me see if I understand what you are saying about wisdom and the wise man. He is needed when our knowledge fails, when we are uncerta...

@"TheMadFool" You say that “a wise person isn’t confined to specific disciplines but has a fair if not complete grasp of all that can be known...” Wou...

@"TheMadFool" how does your response to my last post follow from what I said? The question was whether knowledge conduces to the good, and I gave exam...

@"TheMadFool" Excellent question! Does knowledge necessarily conduce to what is good (and I admit I have paraphrased what you actually said)? And the ...

@"Brett" “why would wisdom hurt others?” Had you known what Hitler or Stalin was going to do, would it not have been wise to put a bullet in his head?...

@"kideceudan" You might want also to check out Xenophon: it might be in his “Memorabilia”; for, besides Plato, Xenophon was the earliest and foremost ...

@"kideceudan" it is reminiscent of the tale, at Luke 16:19, of the rich man and Lazarus, though many of your particulars not align with that story.