Not for Everyone
Monday, September 22nd, 2008In the New York Times Magazine, Jonathan Mahler profiles Auburn Professor of Philosophy Kelly Jolley.
He says that philosophy requires a certain rare and innate ability — the ability to step outside yourself and observe your own mind in the act of thinking. In this respect, Jolley recognizes that his detractors have a point when they criticize his approach to teaching. “It’s aristocratic in the sense that any selection based on talent is aristocratic,” he told me. “I know it offends everyone’s sense of democracy, this idea that everyone’s equal, but we all know that’s just not true.”

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