A coward, braggart and buffoon when taken to pieces and the evidence judged in the abstract, he nonetheless has qualities of bravery and generosity of heart which redeem what would have been just a catalogue of imperfections, not by ‘outweighing’ them, but by transforming them into something else within the quiddity of his being.
The limitation of abstraction belied by experience. We conote bravery in the face denotative foolishness. To say the former is solely the latter exposes an analytic myopia.
Knowing-learning /wisdom relies on the synthesis (a dialogue between) both.
