I don't know what you experienced or when you took a course. Earlier time, it was admittedly malfunctioning on many levels. But I don't let these things happen in critical philosophy program, nor does Jason Mohaghegh in his program. My sincere apologies if you had to deal with it
Sure for individuals it might be as not everyone is getting executed like Socrates. But that's not the case with non-profit institutions where you have donors, board memebers and all the structuring constraints.
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Also the freedom of thought is too fuzzy to be helpful. Do you allow a person to teach creationism in your school? I personally don't.
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So it comes down to the catch22 of education. You want some mechanisms in place to create free collective education to challenge dogmas and you also need mechanism to ensure the sustainability of the said project.
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What is the point of having those donors, board members and structural constraints if the institution stands for nothing, believes in nothing, and has no principles? I don't get why you're making excuses for them.
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What do you mean by principles? It seems you are stuck in some sort of adolescent justice warrior black&white universe which inflates the flaws and deflates the great work instructors do.
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