Phenomenological Perspectives pp 229-243 | Cite as
Sym-Philosophizing in an Ethics Class
Abstract
When I returned from Herbert Spiegelberg’s Workshop in Phenomenology in the summer of 1967, I was quite upset about my experiences. I had not gotten at all what I had expected to get. To be sure, I had a pocketful of techniques, impressions of some pleasant associations, visions of the St. Louis arch. But I did not have any essences, and I had no clear idea of how I was ever going to get any. It was not long before I began to wonder about the whole idea of sym-philosophizing as working together to grasp immutable essences on which everyone would agree. It was this Platonic conception of philosophizing that I finally concluded had been at the basis of the Workshop and that I now found it incumbent on me to reject. If there was to be sym-philosophizing at all, it must have a goal other than this.
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