The greater truth is the rarity/absence of factors that turn this seed into a blossoming tree in all males.Males do carry “the seed†(the potential) for wisdom, because they carry the seed of masculinity. Therefore, all males have the potential for wisdom. That only a small number of men have tried to use their full potential in the pursuit of wisdom doesn’t alter the truth that all men possess (at base) the same potential.
Therefore, your male seed speaks to my mind only of a fantastic empirical uncertainty.
Yes, most men waste their potential by enslaving themselves to woman. But even those weak and feeble minded fools may still possess an ounce of shame about their lives.
I don’t doubt that they do have moments where they feel shame--right before they go out and, just like a woman, go with the same ol’ flow. Perhaps, even, the shame is always there.
By feeling shame, they show their solidarity with those men who have made a bid for greater things.
Quite a euphemistic interpretation. Shame is closer to weakness than solidarity. Such seeds are impotent. Do you mean to make them feel better for it? Now, I don't particularly mind if that is the case but let's not pretend it isn't. I myself cannot see it any other way, frankly.
Now, this is precisely the problem:Yes, I’ll agree with you on this point if what you mean by “projecting my own idea[l]s†has to do with my considering that (1) all people value logic and reason as much as I do.
Though, I'd add, even after being proven incorrect time and time again, I have not, as yet, been dissuaded from my position. There are billions of people on the planet, and out of them (2) I've come across some who also value logic and reason. (3) Therefore,* I maintain that there is a possibility for there to be more.
1. All people value logic and reason.
2. I have come across some who (but certainly not all who I have come across) value logic and reason.
3. There is a possibility for there to be more who value logic and reason.
How do you get “I have come across some who value logic and reason; therefore, there is a possibility for there to be more who value logic and reason†without being dissuaded from the idea that all people value logic and reason?
You stated that they were my “own idea[l]s†when you began writing the sentence. Whose idea[l]s you consider them to be now at the end of your sentence, is a complete mystery to me?
I did. Apologies for the badly constructed sentence. What I meant to convey is that you are casting such a great deal of faith in and focus on this male seed (potential for wisdom in all males) and that that is either your own ideal (that is, the seed is in YOU, a female) or the seed is not in you and you are yourself empty of any potential, parroting ideas that ultimately have no meaning to you. (Personally, I do not see you in the latter category.)
What kind of potential is potential that goes nowhere--the potential for shame?
Oh well – I'll just have to trust in my own mind and do the best I can. And I'm sure, Leyla, that you will continue to judge whether or not my thinking about reality accords with your own. (For that is the nature of this forum.)
Of course.
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