RE: Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?
October 10, 2016 at 1:22 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2016 at 1:23 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(October 10, 2016 at 8:18 am)abaris Wrote:(October 10, 2016 at 5:18 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I disagree with this. I find folks admirable who work through their flaws. Churchill, mentioned above, and Abraham Lincoln, are two of my favorites.
Point is, as I said, I'm very careful with extremes. Admiration as well as hatred.
There are certainly certain things I admire in certain persons. But the whole person? No, according to my definition of admiration, I don't have that feeling for any historical person. Not even artists, who's work I certainly admire. I love Wagner, just to give one example, but there's the person behind the work. And he certainly wasn't admirable. I admire Mozart's work, and, going by all accounts, I like him as a person, but he certainly wasn't admirable in everything he did.
We have different attitudes about it, I was just giving voice to my own.