tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3742896604937141881..comments2024-03-28T12:50:25.792-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESSRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-12935793390846679532012-10-10T09:46:10.576-04:002012-10-10T09:46:10.576-04:00The potential loss of a career by some individual ...The potential loss of a career by some individual is also the potential waste of an intellectual resource by a society, to the evident advantage of at least one of the current major US political parties.Don Schneierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751277350617015241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-24169493937347404922012-10-09T15:30:11.972-04:002012-10-09T15:30:11.972-04:00I quite agree that the combination of government m...I quite agree that the combination of government money and the threat of the draft produced a generation of academics who probably would have been better off in some other line of work, but took a safe and easy path instead. But my heart goes out to young people who, through no fault of their own, cannot have the sort of rewarding and fulfilling career that would most certainly have been theirs a generation earlier.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-77746200507220152972012-10-09T13:14:34.855-04:002012-10-09T13:14:34.855-04:00For me, one, not inconsiderable, blessing of havin...For me, one, not inconsiderable, blessing of having arrived too late for that Golden Age, is that I can attend to my own philosophical interests without distraction. Since I do not subscribe to the value of possible world comparison, I resist speculating about whether or not I am better off as such. Or, since I have long sided with Spinoza vs. Kant on the relation between Virtue and Reward, perhaps I've just gotten what I deserve. Don Schneierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751277350617015241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-24570087848979460252012-10-09T13:09:01.851-04:002012-10-09T13:09:01.851-04:00The cockroach story suggests that you don't th...The cockroach story suggests that you don't think that you necessarily deserved all the success that you enjoyed. The closing line suggests that you think *everyone* deserves all the success that you enjoyed (the conditions for which are no longer present). Devil's advocate here: Surely one of the effects of the golden age was that some people who did not "deserve" fancy jobs nonetheless got them, and produced a great deal of schreck as a result. Unless you think: the more philosophers the better, and no better use for government money? Rosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560979589596952455noreply@blogger.com