The Virtues of an Intellectual

Wesley Clark: I just felt like after maybe a year or two I was ready to read philosophy again. But when I found myself reading it again it was in a much different mode, and it wasn't the same. He says he finds himself almost trying to join a conversation between people that he admired but also wanted to learn from them.Clark: Posture that is so inculcated in the student today really seems to kind of feed the vice of pride though doesn't it? The style of critique made me rationalize my pride for a long time because you're setting yourself up as sort of the arbiter of this sort of tradition,. When in reality what what he wants us