Other Calling
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What is the true calling of the intellectual? In this provocative new book, Andrew Shanks presents a distinctive fresh answer. The Other Calling is a systematic riposte both to the elitism of philosophy in the heritage of Plato, and to the typical individualism of Plato''s philosophic opponents. Here, instead, intellectual integrity is identified with a form of priesthood.
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What is the true calling of the intellectual? In this provocative new book, Andrew Shanks presents a distinctive fresh answer. The Other Calling is a systematic riposte both to the elitism of philosophy in the heritage of Plato, and to the typical individualism of Plato''s philosophic opponents. Here, instead, intellectual integrity is identified with a form of priesthood.
- Asserts that intelle...
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