Another helpful follow-up piece. Thank you for writing this, Mike.
This passage stood out for me:
"If we want to be able to avoid these deficiencies and excesses, we need wisdom. We need to see the world as accurately and truthfully as we can so that we can discern what exactly professionalism, critical inquiry, and social justice means in any given situation. These virtues are not self-evident, and they are not calcuable. They are found in living the life of the mind in communion with our colleagues; in challenging ourselves through exercises in thought and practice; and in cultivating dispositions through interacting with fellow experts, commonly-held canons, and the animating situations of our vocation: the classroom, the seminar, the library, the laboratory, and, appropriately, the conference."
Another helpful follow-up piece. Thank you for writing this, Mike.
This passage stood out for me:
"If we want to be able to avoid these deficiencies and excesses, we need wisdom. We need to see the world as accurately and truthfully as we can so that we can discern what exactly professionalism, critical inquiry, and social justice means in any given situation. These virtues are not self-evident, and they are not calcuable. They are found in living the life of the mind in communion with our colleagues; in challenging ourselves through exercises in thought and practice; and in cultivating dispositions through interacting with fellow experts, commonly-held canons, and the animating situations of our vocation: the classroom, the seminar, the library, the laboratory, and, appropriately, the conference."