Socrates: Nature and Nurture

“If the gods let Penelope bear such a son as you, they did not mean for your lineage to be inglorious in times to come.”

Self-Improvement: Nature and Nurture

Contrary to the currently fashionable egalitarian blank-slatist hysteria, the Greeks universally believed that an individual’s qualities were the fruits of nature and nurture. Even the sophist Protagoras, a thinker of democratic leanings and an educator of the people, argued: “Teaching requires natural endowments and …