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I am going to say one simple thing re this: blog.apaonline.org/2019/08/07/on-… and then step far away from Twitter.
This is that, in my now 20 years of studying, teaching, & attempting to practice philosophy, my experience is that "calling into question ... the validity of [people's] own /
This is that, in my now 20 years of studying, teaching, & attempting to practice philosophy, my experience is that "calling into question ... the validity of [people's] own /
/ understanding of who they are" is SIMPLY THE THING THAT PHILOSOPHERS DO, and have done fairly consistently since Socrates got put to death for doing it.
No doubt this can be done better and worse, and with more or less concern for those whose self-understanding is at stake /
No doubt this can be done better and worse, and with more or less concern for those whose self-understanding is at stake /
/ on any given occasion. (For the record, I favor "more".)
But to say that philosophers should not do these things is just to say that philosophers SHOULD NOT DO PHILOSOPHY, at least not in earshot of anyone to whom it might make a difference.
Let's do philosophy kindly, yes. /
But to say that philosophers should not do these things is just to say that philosophers SHOULD NOT DO PHILOSOPHY, at least not in earshot of anyone to whom it might make a difference.
Let's do philosophy kindly, yes. /
/ But let's remember as well that it can BE a kindness to reveal to someone that his or her self-understanding was mistaken or confused.
