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“One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.”

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Pierre Hadot (February 21, 1922 - April 24, 2010) was a prominent French philosopher known for his extensive research on ancient Greek philosophy and his exploration of the relationship between philosophy and life. more

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