On Sep 10, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Matt Kundert wrote:
>
> Hi Marsha,
>
> Marsha said:
> My alternative view is that the differentiation between professional
> and amateur philosopher is just so much cultural clap-trap.
>
> Matt:
> When one combines this formulation of your alternative with Ron's
> observation that "every topic is cultural claptrap" (because, I take it,
> everything to discuss is built out of our culture, i.e. static patterns)
> and then Dan's iteration of the value of discussion despite that broad,
> too-true fact, I think we can get the sense in which this formulation
> isn't as preferable as your second formulation: "the differences are
> not really a topic that interests me."
>
> For the second strikes me as perfectly reasonable: there are lots of
> topics that don't interest me (one might say: that I'm incurious
> about). However, the first formulation was, we might say,
> dismissive of that topic. And I don't take it that we need to dismiss
> everything that doesn't interest us, and further that dismissing is
> exactly not what one amateur does to another: dismissing is what a
> professional does when they find that something isn't relevant to the
> discipline. But amateurs have no discipline, and so seemingly
> should always take at most a non-dismissive non-interest in each
> others work.
>
> Also, I agree that many attempts to differentiate between pro and
> amateur are "so much cultural claptrap." However, that's why I take
> an interest in trying to find a better way to state those differences
> should they exist in a meaningful way. I'm not sure I've found any
> yet, and I don't take it that thinking about it is necessary for one to
> compose themselves as an amateur (i.e., I don't think it's necessary
> for an amateur to be interested in this particular topic).
>
> Matt
We don't have many jokes, though, now, it is pretty
much all sobriety; and we do not have much poetry,
father having made up his mind that it's pretty
much all real life. Father's real life and mine some-
times come into collision but as yet escape unhurt.
--- Emily Dickinson
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