On The (Im)Possibility of Philosophical Teaching According to the Pathos of the Philosopher

• Authors: Schoof Carlos
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this essay I expose two historical examples of the ambivalence of the place of philosophical knowledge in society. The symptomatic starting point is Aristotle’s char- acterization of the philosopher. Then, through the specification of Descartes’s views on philosophy, culture, the human and the artificial, I will show that there exists certain tension between the development of philosophy as a free knowledge available to every- one and philosophy as a specialized knowledge only suitable for initiates. Nowadays, when philosophy is in a critical situation maybe because of that ambivalence, the need arises to overcome this problem and democratize it.

Keywords

EN

Aristotle; Descartes; philosophy; humanism; ivory tower

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 147-152

Contributors

author

Schoof Carlos

• Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Pontifi- cia Universidad Católica del Perú), Lima, Perú