Abraham Maslow has a vision of academic lineage. I find this quietly but deeply moving.pic.twitter.com/vwnbw0Rdj1
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I think it’s a common/universal idea, but I’ve been out of academia so long I’m not sure. I also think that the Buddhist analogy makes it unusually salient for me.
I’m not sure how accurate my assessment is - but it seems like @erik_davis and Jeffrey Kripal have the rudiments of a pretty cool academic lineage in process.
The rough idea seemed common enough in my bit of physics... we wouldn't use the word 'lineage', but we'd know our supervisors back at least a couple of generations, and refer to our academic 'brothers' and 'sisters'
From my perspective, within one or two generation, definitively. (Who someone was advised by gives a ton of info, and if you know where the advisor came from, also useful). I don't typically go further back though.
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