THE SCHOLAR-OFFICIAL AS A MODEL FOR ETHICS |
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| Authors: | ROBERT C. NEVILLE |
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| Affiliation: | THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, STONY BROOK |
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| Abstract: | Ignorance has its advantages. When philosophy has a comparative dimension, for instance, and a philosopher from one culture considers a philosophy from another, the philosophy attains a life of its own somewhat freed from its cultural context. In this circumstance the philosopher's ignorance of the cultural ground and consequences of the ideas allows an unusual freedom for appropriating the ideas to new contexts. |
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