Folk in #philosophy a question for yinz. I always think of the canon as stuff there’s a normative expectation that someone finishing an undergrad degree (or at about that level) be familiar with. So it’s primarily a teaching category. Does this accord with your sense of the term?
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I guess because humanities grad school is professionalization & disciplinization & humanities undergrad ed is equipping people with cognitive & affective tools for being better citizens of a liberal democracy.
But I guess I don't see the contrast here. Don't people think that there is stuff in Plato and Kant and Spinoza and what not that is ennobling and good for the citizenry in a democracy to be familiar with?
