Socratism as a Vocation

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• 作者：Molly Brigid Flynn
• 关键词：Liberal education ; Academics ; Universities ; Parts and whole ; Philosophy ; Pedagogy ; Collegiality ; Disciplines ; Socrates ; Irony ; Arrogance ; Specialization ; Max Weber ; Robert Sokolowski ; Thomas Prufer ; Edmund Husserl ; Boethius
• 刊名：Society
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：54
• 期：1
• 页码：64-68
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• 刊物主题：Sociology, general; Political Science;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1936-4725
• 卷排序：54

文摘

This paper discusses the rhetorical problems teachers face in presenting Socratic activity to students, and it then argues that parallel problems arise in presenting liberal education to many academic colleagues. Given the nature of philosophy and the nature of expertise in today’s academy, most academics will not understand, and perhaps be hostile to, philosophy, and philosophers may sometimes seem to them both arrogant and ignorant. The contemporary academy, dominated by assumptions Weber articulates in “Science as a Vocation,” does not make room for philosophical activity and practitioners of philosophy in the classroom (in various departments) must adopt rhetorically appropriate postures in order to create safe spaces for Socratic activity.