Students of philosophy - with some rare exceptions - typically leave the university with a suspiciously uniformed set of beliefs:
-That questions of metaphysics are to be solved on a practical moral basis at best.
-That pre-socratic philosophers, and sophists in particular, should be discredited and that no effort needs to be made in understanding their thoughts.
-That philosophy's ultimate role is to organize the natural sciences.
-That rationality and empiricism are the only acceptable modes of philosophical enquiries.
-That there is an obvious difference between objective experiences and subjective ones.
-That every valuable thought is communicable.
-That all texts can be read in abstracto of experience.
-That progress exists, and that philosophy can be shown to follow its path.
-etc..., etc..., etc...
Could university philosophy be an endoctrination?
Has something gone wrong in the way philosophy defines itself within academic institutions?
2006-12-28
16:44:05
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