On Ethical and Intellectual Virtue (In the Aristotelian Sense).

The Freudian site on Twitter posts this question which we pose to all, including psychiatry itself in its hypotheses or philosophical foundations:

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@DeepPsycho_HQ

How do you learn from a person who is smarter than you? But bad people can have stronger calculative faculties. What is the right priority of human ends, purposes, goals?

Humans are divided by this: Most envy and feel humiliated by wisdom. then attack it! Some, though, experience this and are called by the marvels to love wisdom and adhere to the wise, to drink their words and postures with gaping soul.

Envy is the last word in the study of the Apology of Socrates. Envy and we find a hidden shame. The shame- that they did not do what the wise have done- turn to the wise. But also that they have not cared for man, but wasted their time here.

One wonders reading the scriptures how the Pharisees can both admit that Jesus just healed a guy, and yet attack him for doing so on the Sabbath.

95% of the pursuit of intellectual virtue Fails to pass the gate of ethical virtue. One trhing a St. John's Great Books education does in the 4 years they have the students is give experience in dialectic, where they might learn, even by practice and necessity, necessity, to set their own aside when speaking to others.

One must overcome the fear of death and sacrifice love of one's own in order to learn from the wise- who are right there, once something else no longer gets in the way. That is why those who are arguing "my own idea" or my argument," these are not learning.

Psychiatry itself must turn to the ancient wise. Freud was philosophically lazy- so we have the standard of the "normal." What is the health of the soul? What do YOU say it is?

Irving would say, repeatedly, "Cut the knot," especially to Jerry, and we would wonder what this means, based on Alexander, but what does he mean? Its like the Buddhist renunciation of ourselves, sacrifice, and to accept mortality and our own mortal limits, compared to...

...Wisdom herself- which would be the possession of the God.