ON THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHICAL TEACHING
ACCORDING TO THE PATHOS OF THE PHILOSOPHER
ON THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHICAL TEACHING
ACCORDING TO THE PATHOS OF THE PHILOSOPHER
Author(s): Carlos SchoofSubject(s): Social Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Fundacja Filozofia na Rzecz Dialogu
Keywords: Aristotle; Descartes; philosophy; humanism; ivory tower
Summary/Abstract: In this essay I expose two historical examples of the ambivalence of the place ofphilosophical knowledge in society. The symptomatic starting point is Aristotle’s characterization of the philosopher. Then, through the specification of Descartes’s views onphilosophy, culture, the human and the artificial, I will show that there exists certaintension between the development of philosophy as a free knowledge available to everyone and philosophy as a specialized knowledge only suitable for initiates. Nowadays,when philosophy is in a critical situation maybe because of that ambivalence, the needarises to overcome this problem and democratize it.
Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 147-152
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
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