Bigots Target; who is a philosopher?

[Michael Zeleny]

fe...@cc.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld) writes:

MZ:
:: I once heard John Rawls cite Kant to the effect that there were
:: no philosophers, but only students of philosophy. Since I take the
:: term in its primary etymological sense, I do not share this opinion.
:: But surely there are bad philosophers in addition to humble students.

: Once, when I was a grad student, and someone asked me that
: quintessentially American question, "what do you do?", I, following
: the lead of my friends in engineering who called themselves
: "engineers", and those in chemistry who called themselves "chemists",
: said that I was a philosopher.
:
: My wife laughed her head off.
:
: Since then, I've found it more prudent to say that my trade is my
: secret; and, if forced to confess, allow as how I teach philosophy,
: and study it.

Setting aside the issues of matrimonial deference and professional
affiliation, you have failed to address the question of whether or
not you are a lover of wisdom.

cordially, don't
mikhail zel...@math.ucla.edu tread
writing from the disneyland of formal philosophy on
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes." me