Volume 11, Number 9 · November 21, 1968
Philosopher, Inc.
By Anthony Quinton
The Conditions of Philosophy
by Mortimer J. Adler
Atheneum, 303 pp., $5.95
The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes
by Mortimer J. Adler
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 395 pp., $7.95
Particular academic disciplines do not institute bodies formally charged with the maintenance of ethical standards, as do such professions as medicine and law whose services have a more immediate practical interest. But they do develop some sort of agreement about the line between respectable and less respectable ways of practicing the discipline in question. (At times there is the unfortunate situation of competing doctrinal schools each trying to draw the line so as to put all who are outside the school on the wrong side of it.) This agreement will not exert itself through an explicit apparatus of courts and condemnations. But it has sanctions at its disposal; exclusion from posts, a unanimously dismissive style of reviewing, the conspiracy of silence.
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