Summer and Winter Foolishness

(This is a shortened version of an original blog post by gbsadler. For the original, please visit Feed: Ask a Philosopher...)
Years ago in reading, I encountered the distinction between two families of fools -- and two types of foolishness. I've invoked that easily remembered and vivid distinction by way of explanation in many conversations down the years, and have puzzled about precisely what goes wrong with the winter fool -- how to explain their folly in terms of defective practical
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