shart_attack
Gold Member
Are the greatest leaders born, i.e. entitled via aristocracy or plutocracy, or are they made great via the nicks, pings and bruises on their bodies and the dirt under their fingernails acquired from the charismatic camaraderie and quantification of hard work?
Me, I tend to think that the best leaders are made, not born.
But because some of the most well-known leaders in world history (Alexander the Great, King Solomon and Winston Churchill, for example) were both born into wealth or the statesmanship of surname and molded from the clay of their hard work—and the gut-wrenching emotional and spiritual mountains and valleys that accompanied that work—I'm not sure one can definitively state that they are only made.
It's been a while since I was in a philosophy class, so I'm hoping that some fellow USMBers will put a good spin on the question and thereby give me a helping hand with this.
Me, I tend to think that the best leaders are made, not born.
But because some of the most well-known leaders in world history (Alexander the Great, King Solomon and Winston Churchill, for example) were both born into wealth or the statesmanship of surname and molded from the clay of their hard work—and the gut-wrenching emotional and spiritual mountains and valleys that accompanied that work—I'm not sure one can definitively state that they are only made.
It's been a while since I was in a philosophy class, so I'm hoping that some fellow USMBers will put a good spin on the question and thereby give me a helping hand with this.
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