I've mentioned a number of positive views on polymathy (whatever it really is). It's only fair to start discussing some negative (seriously negative) opinions on polymathy.
Oxford historian Neil Kenny wrote in The palace of secrets: Béroalde de Verville and Renaissance conceptions
of knowledge that polymathy was nothing more than the “unsystematic
acquisition of multifarious fragments of knowledge which are not integrated
into any unified pattern.”
And Friedrich Nietzsche topped him, maintaining in Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
that “an unrestrained thirst for knowledge for its own sake barbarizes men just
as much as a hatred for knowledge.”
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