The intellectual virtues are an aristocratic habit. If you have the...
𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴@_bonaventurian
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Sep 23, 2025
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The intellectual virtues are an aristocratic habit. If you have the disposition, you can reignite it again through wonder and the love of truth.
Otherwise, you weren't gifted.
You were just rote-learned.
Which is naturally meaningless outside of the high school classroom.
Otherwise, you weren't gifted.
You were just rote-learned.
Which is naturally meaningless outside of the high school classroom.
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Which is the case with pretty much every single burned-out ESL or 2nd generation immigrant child in the western world whose parents put them through cram schools and tutoring colleges to min max their way into University.
It wasn't your fault.
It wasn't your fault.
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And perhaps things could have been better for you.
But you need to realise that you were merely raised to be just very effective human capital. The only way out from this is to desire and aspire towards better things.
To virtue, and to God.
But you need to realise that you were merely raised to be just very effective human capital. The only way out from this is to desire and aspire towards better things.
To virtue, and to God.
