[lit-ideas] Re: A Service Profession
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:00:47 -0230
Walter indeed is saying that the discipline of philosophy is not itself a
service profession. It comes to be addressed as such when its resources, forms
of analysis, etc. are deployed by an applied field of learning, such as
education, medicine, law, nursing, engineering, journalism, escort services,
etc.. Not that there's anything WRONG in that.
Being a discipline rather than a field of learning, the "good" of philosophy is
not to be measured by any changes or states of affairs in the world it may
bring about. The moral and epistemic worth of the "results" produced by a
discipline rest intrinsically within its pursuit as a practice of scholarship.
Walter O
MUN
Quoting Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx:
> In a message dated 6/26/2009 3:15:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Are you or is Walter saying that philosophy is not a service profession?
> If
> so, then what the hell good is it?
>
> health service, name given generally or specifically to the aggregate of
> public (as opposed to private) medical facilities available to members of a
>
> community
>
>
> Yes. I think it _is_ an Americanism. Cfr. above.
>
> I have to search 'service to mankind' -- I hadn't thought about that. Geary
> is a noble one.
>
> J. L. S
>
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