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Canons, Careers, And Campfollowers: Randall And The Historiography Of Philosophy, Gary Shapiro
Canons, Careers, And Campfollowers: Randall And The Historiography Of Philosophy, Gary Shapiro
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For some very good reasons John Herman Randall, Jr. saw himself as an innovator and a deviant within the discourse that is called the history of philosophy. In an early chapter of The Career of Philosophy he pronounces this characteristically salty judgment on the main tendency of such work:
The history of philosophy, in truth, since German professors captured it and made it the handmaiden of academic advancement, has been a rigid tradition. Philosophy began with Thales, it falls neatly into Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, and it culminates in the men now writing for your favorite philosophical journal, God forgive …