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Philosophy of a person's expertese

Name: hobbit 2008-06-16 17:15

I have an interesting dilema. It seems that I have two contradictory beliefs about how someone should develope themselves as a person. My first belief is stated in Plato's Republic. In the first chapter Socrates states that people should only develope themselves to do one trait and people should focus on different areas. Thus one person would be a tailor another would be a carpenter. They can trade their services and so the tailor would get something like a chair and the carpenter would get clothing. This would eventually lead to money and a wel running sociaty. I also believe that one should be well-rounded. That is that one is a physisist but also delves a little in psychology or philosophy. Can someone help me. Do you believe the first ideology is too old-fashioned.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-18 4:57

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>>3 here and I said people have interests in other things. Of course it takes a massive talent to be an expert in different things and actually make contributions to more than one thing. Renaissance men were more common in past times for sure, when there wasn't so much to learn about a field. But I mean, people like Einstein found the time to write about politics. I don't think many people truly immerse themselves 100% in something for their whole life.

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