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by version_five
1137 days ago
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Are there any "prodigies" in philosophy? Music and chess (the examples the author gives) along with math, are special cases where there is obviously some shortcut most of us don't possess that makes some people naturally really good. And critically, they're all completely objective. Pretty much everything else, especially philosophy is wildly subjective anyway, so it's not like a kid could just step up and drop a philosophy bomb the way a piano prodigy could demonstrate their skill. And it's got all sorts of complex dependencies, like reading a lot of stuff. There are also no biblical scholar prodigies. |
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There are cases of people who among other things can read and almost perfectly remember comparatively massive amounts of text at a young age. Someone like that could qualify if they picked such a direction to focus on?