When kids do linear algebra or they rise to the level of GM in chess within the first two decades of their lives, such people are obviously geniuses. Their intelligence is undeniable.
But it’s like moral/spiritual geniuses aren’t recognized in the same way, if at all. How come their intuitive expertise isn’t recognized so easily ?
Kant? St. Augustine? Siddhartha Budda? Epictetus? Plato? Hobbes?
Ethical philosophy has had plenty of geniuses.
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable
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Philosophy needs a better PR department
why, did we lose the old one?
It was Henry Kissinger, still waiting on the new one to spawn in.
Probably because morality is subjective and spirituality is a feeling?
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Mozart was a child prodigy. He started playing piano at age 4, and at age 5 he started composing piano pieces that are still played today. He wrote a symphony at age 8 and an opera at 14. There is a legend that as a child, he heard a choir sing an Allegri piece and went home and transcribed the entire thing from memory.
Anyone operating at that level of morality wants nothing to do with humanity. It’s not that there aren’t any, it’s that you’ll never hear of them.
moral/spiritual genius
Can you define these? I’m certainly having a hard time trying to.
Morality is a subjective set of views. How can one be better at it than another? With “spiritual” intelligence, I guess we have to define the term itself before even thinking about how to measure it.
Since you wrote this post, you probably have some idea of what a moral genius is supposed to be. Can you describe what makes a person a moral genius and maybe give an example?
But yeah, if someone came to me and called themselves a moral or spiritual genius, I’d think they’re either full of it, or insane.
Chances are they are logical geniuses claiming they’ve solved morals or social interactions.
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Still, there are widely recognized universal moral values
Not really
like don’t kill other people.
So culture have the death penalty. Many would consider killing in time of war as okay. What about self-defense? Or defense of others? Is it morality wrong? What about euthenasia? Does it only applies to human? Moral is subjective.
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Moral is dependent on the time and the place. What was morally justified yesterday might be offensive tomorrow.
For example: Adolf Hitler could have been a moral genius in regards to eugenics whereas Martin Luther King would have been a moral idiot.
Joel Osteen thinks he’s what you describe. In reality he’s a disgusting narcissistic sociopath.
There are, its just usually people don’t like to hear what they have to say.
“So, you’re a philosopher?”
“Yes. I think very deeplydeeply deeply”
Kant would like a word.
Did he make such great strides at young ages?
Being able to operate at expert level in one area of endeavor doesn’t guarantee that you will be at that same level in all things you do.
