How is a good nature worth more than knowledge ?

Question

How is a good nature worth more than knowledge ?

Answer 1

hmmm, let me ask you the other way around... how much knowledge really worths in the absence of a good nature? would you hang around a person spitting concepts and major theories all the time, but hitting the neighbor's dog just because the dog approached them asking to be pet?

would you sit on the shore attending the lectures of a guru insensitive to the fact that someone is drowning in the lake just before their eyes? would it help you to learn the theory of relativity when you've just been involved in a car accident? and so on...

I think, in spite of the heavy "carthesianism" and in spite of all the hymns to the knowledge philosophers have sung in time, there is nothing more important than... the purity and genuineness of one's self.

Answer 2

Your answers are so shallow tonight. Can you plumb your soul a little deeper and come up with some more philosophical questions? What is the half life of Mayonnaise and why does cottage cheese spoil so easily? These are the questions that have plagued mankind(womankind as well) for eons. Henry David Thoreau would be better at answering your question than I. It is not in my nature to answer questions without the knowledge to do so.

Answer 3

Good nature indicates a balance of one's emotions and personal interests.

I would say that emotional maturity is more valuable than intellectual abilities because an emotionally mature person has more insight for evaluating situations. They not only see the obvious which is presented to them but they can get beneath the surface and understand the movitations behind them, what emotions drive them.

In any human interactions it isn't the one who is most intelligent that gains the trust of others but the person who shows confidence, goodwill, fairmindedness, and is easy to approach. These are important qualities when dealing with the general public. They are qualities we can readily connect to.

Answer 4

when you think you "know" something its bound to change, but your innate self will stay the same.

Answer 5

Is it in your nature to learn?

Answer 6

You don't have to think twice, it's alright.

Answer 7

Because it's nice to have relatedness to back up knowledge.  If people cannot relate with one another with his/her good nature, then knowledge might not be heard.

Answer 8

good nature is fundamentals of human behaviour a pre-requisite to knowledge

Answer 9

There is no such thing as a "good nature." When people don't like what you do they call you immature. When they think you are toothless they call you "good natured."

Answer 10

I think you are heading in a  Kantian pathway towards the conclusion that the only good thing without qualification is a good will or as you have phrased it so aptly a good nature, a nature in balance, giving way to thoughts good and bad with no ulterior motives, remaining good unto itself and all that it comes in contact with.

Knowledge is a good thing if used for good purposes. If used for bad purposes then it becomes tainted and cruel like the theory of relativity that leads to the atomic bomb and many bombs like it, not because of the knowledge in and of itself but because of the nature of the person who applies that knowledge to life.  A bad nature can make a weapon out of a snowflake and a good nature can make an igloo.

Life is wet we make of it.