On the (Im)possibility of philosophical teaching according to the pathos of the philosopher

Carlos Schoof Alvarez

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Resumen

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 characterization 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 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 need arises to overcome this problem and democratize it.
Idioma originalEspañol
Páginas (desde-hasta)147-152
Número de páginas6
PublicaciónDialogue and Universalism
Volumen29
EstadoPublicada - 1 ene. 2019

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