{"id":5566,"date":"2017-05-01T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/01\/the-self-murder-of-academic-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:36:43","slug":"the-self-murder-of-academic-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/01\/the-self-murder-of-academic-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Self-Murder of Academic Philosophy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Rod Dreher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/the-self-murder-of-academic-philosophy\/\">here<\/a> exposes the latest lunacy in the precincts of mad-dog feminism. I have no objection to the main body of his post, but his opening sentence, written by a philosophy outsider, will give philosophy outsiders the wrong impression. Dreher asks, &quot;Can somebody please tell me why anybody would choose to go into academic philosophy?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Short answer: philosophy is a magnificent subject and one of the supports of high culture; it cannot be done well, however, without attention to the work of &#39;academic&#39; philosophers from Plato on down. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Dreher seems to be assuming that the garbage he uncovers is representative of academic philosophy. &#0160;Not so. Pee-Cee <em>Unsinn<\/em> is on the rise, and leftist termites have a lot to answer for in the undermining of the universities, but good work is being done in contemporary academic philosophy, not to mention the work done in decades past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">That being said, the short-term trends are not encouraging. &#0160;But one cannot live without hope. One reason for hope is that &quot;Philosophy always buries its undertakers&quot; as Etienne Gilson famously wrote. That is the first of his &quot;laws of philosophical experience.&quot; (<em>The Unity of Philosophical Experience<\/em>, Scribners, 1937, p. 306) The undertakers are winning at the moment, but they will taken under in their turn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/02\/philosophy-always-resurrects-its-dead.html\">Philosophy Always Resurrects its Dead<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/01\/religion-always-buries-its-undertakers.html\">Religion Always Buries its Undertakers<\/a>&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher here exposes the latest lunacy in the precincts of mad-dog feminism. I have no objection to the main body of his post, but his opening sentence, written by a philosophy outsider, will give philosophy outsiders the wrong impression. Dreher asks, &quot;Can somebody please tell me why anybody would choose to go into academic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/01\/the-self-murder-of-academic-philosophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Self-Murder of Academic Philosophy?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}