Intellectual Humility

A long tradition, a short memory

The Oracle at Delphi told Socrates that he was wisest man in Athens because he alone had the wisdom to admit that he did not know things rather than pretend that he did.

I’m always mortified when I think back to some of the intellectual positions that I once held so firmly, like my sweeping condemnation of certain thinkers as being purely “toxic”—someth…