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2007-11-03 14:44:27 · 10 answers · asked by Third P 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There are two answers to your question, not one.
One form of "genius" is discontexted...like an idiot savant
who does something beyond what others can do but mostly because it's possible to that person, less by "will" than because that's the one unusual thing he/she can do and is encouraged to do.
The other sort of genius requires context--by will plus exact knowledge of what one is doing, then doing it unusually well because it's a prioritized value choice one does because of several or many talents, this is the one your choose to do at that particular moment.
The discontexted genius for something is genuine; but unless one is mentally challenged, the actions of discontexted mental work, such as playing chess or solving math problems in one's head or performing mental feats for money are only a way of earning for few people and a waste of time for the others doing them--such as most college courses not based in scientific definitions, making bad movies or watching them, etc.
Contexted genius must be rewarded by a society; it's rare and the person who can perform such abilities ar beyond others can write poetry, symphony scores, novels, plays, constitutional laws and non-fiction far better than can others. This is the right use for genius--a very unusual ability at something--that a person needs to seek for
his/her own psychological health and in an honest society to earn a decent living.
2007-11-03 14:57:03 · answer #1 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A great and wonderful question you have posed.
No, is the direct answer.
The colorful answer is that Genius does not exist based on any one dimension. Knowledge without Will to act is simply a bunch of chemically based electrical impulses migrating through your brain.
If genius is enabled by one thing above all others, it would be "wisdom based persistence."
You cannot identify a single genius who lacked persistence.
2007-11-03 15:22:45 · answer #2 · answered by angelthe5th 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge divorced from will would be automatic knowledge, as if it got into your brain from the "ether." It takes will to discover the truth in our observations. No genius ever walked away from his will.
2007-11-04 00:31:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been long debated how one becomes a genius. Some may say they have more gray matter. I don't believe it has to do with the will. Some are born with greatness. For the rest of us, it must find us.
2007-11-03 15:24:18 · answer #4 · answered by Song bird 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A genuis could lie, but it wouldn't take a genuis to get divorced from Will.
Did you mean to say "Does genius lie in knowledge divorced from will?"
I don't think genuis has anything to do with knowledge itself, it has to more to do with wisdom. Genuis cannot be taught, but we know it when we see it. What is or is not genuis is purely subjective.
I think it would be more accurate to say that genuis lies in will divorced from knowledge.
2007-11-03 15:02:06 · answer #5 · answered by majnun99 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Knowledge divorced from will can be powerful but the most powerful knowlegdge is knowledge divorced from doubt.
2007-11-03 14:47:43 · answer #6 · answered by CAring Dude 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No; genius has absolutely nothing to with the will. It is, simply put, a greater mental capacity for reasoning, logic and memorization.
2007-11-03 14:48:19 · answer #7 · answered by spartan-117 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
I am a genius and I still like icecream.
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To become clever in an area you need to choose a direction of thought or a quest to chase. It also requires willpower.
2007-11-03 18:10:18 · answer #8 · answered by Graham P 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. The opposite.
2007-11-04 08:29:52 · answer #9 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose you have to be a genious to understand this question.
2007-11-03 14:46:40 · answer #10 · answered by Laura S 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋