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Philosophy's Higher Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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Philosophy's Higher Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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At about the age of 13 I began to realise that my formal education
was separating itself off from my philosophical education. Of
course, at the time I did not know it in this way. I experienced it
as a split between what I was being taught and my experience of
what I was being taught. It was, I now know, the philosophical
experience of formal schooling. It was not until beginning the
study of sociology at 16 that I came across the idea of
dualisms-pairs of opposites that always appeared together but were
never reconciled. In sociology it was the dualism of the individual
and society. The question most asked in our classes was always
regarding which aspect of the dualism dominated the other. The
answer we always leaned towards was that both were mutually
affected by the other. The answer seemed to lie somewhere in the
middle. It was only at university, first as an undergraduate and
then as a postgraduate, that I came across the idea of the
dialectic. Slowly I began to recognise that the dualisms which
plagued social theory-I and we, self and other, good and evil,
modernity and post-modernity, autonomy and heteronomy, freedom and
nature, truth and relativism, and so many more-were not only
dialectical in being thought about, but also that the thought of
them being dialectical had an even stranger quality. It was the
same experience as being at school.
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