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Why "train" philosophers? When I imagine a "trained philosopher" I see a person who uses a lot of smart-sounding quotes but cannot choose between the right say
by guard-of-terra 14y ago
Why "train" philosophers?
When I imagine a "trained philosopher" I see a person who uses a lot of smart-sounding quotes but cannot choose between the right saying and the wrong saying. It's all the same to him, a material that he absorbed and now outputs.
Challenge philosophers. Confront them. Let them take on each other.
- jacques_chester 14y agoSo, you imagine what a philosopher does, and then tell this imaginary philosopher what to do? Doesn't that strike you as awful presumptuous?
- EliRivers 14y agoWell, we have to imagine philosopher; the philosopher Form can only be known to us through our experiences with "philosophers" we encounter, from which we can build an idea of the true Form philosopher :p
- jacques_chester 14y agoExcept this fellow hasn't even left the cave, he's yelling at the shadow of a shadow of a philosopher.
- argv_empty 14y agoOk. When I imagine a "trained philosopher," I see someone who has spent a lot of time on studying others ideas, proposing their own ideas and challenging/defending these ideas. Should I imagine what you imagine instead?
- guard-of-terra 14y agoNo, you don't have you. But for me, "training" is an activity that makes you good at a narrow and specialized work. "Education" makes you able to work within the boundaries of all knowledge in the area. But philosopher is got to break these boundaries so I don't have a word for that.