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"Philosophy" used to mean "love of wisdom," and people devoted their lives to it for that reason. Nowadays professional philosop

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问题    "Philosophy" used to mean "love of wisdom," and people devoted their lives to it for that reason. Nowadays professional philosophers would be embarrassed to acknowledge so naive a conception of their craft. Today a philosopher may be a specialist in deconstructionism or logical positivism, an epistemologist or an existentialist, but don’t bother him with wisdom. 【F1】It is a common fate of many human institutions to begin as a response to some universal problem until, after many generations, the problems peculiar to the institutions themselves will take precedence over the original goal.
   【F2】Amateur philosophers, unlike their professional counterparts at universities, need not worry about historical struggles for prominence among competing schools, the politics of journals, and the personal jealousies of scholars. They can keep their minds on the basic questions. What these are is the first task for the amateur philosopher to decide.
   【F3】As in all other branches of learning, the first step after deciding what area one wants to pursue is to learn what others have thought about the matter. By reading, talking, and listening selectively one can form an idea of what the "state of the art" in the field is. Again, the importance of personally taking control of the direction of learning from the very first steps cannot be stressed enough.
   When his preferences in philosophy become clear, even the amateur may feel compelled to specialize. Someone interested in the basic characteristics of reality may drift toward ontology and read Wolff, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger. Another person more puzzled by questions of right and wrong would take up ethics and learn about the moral philosophy of Aristotle, Aquinas, Spinoza, and Nietzsche. 【F4】While specialization is necessary to develop the complexity of any pattern of thought, the goals-ends relationship must always be kept clear: specialization is for the sake of thinking better, and not an end in itself.
   In philosophy as in other disciplines there comes a point where a person is ready to pass from the status of passive consumer to that of active producer. 【F5】To write down one’s insights expecting that someday they will be read with awe by future generations would be in most cases an act of arrogance. But if one records ideas in response to an inner challenge to express clearly the major questions by which one feels confronted, and tries to sketch out answers that will help make sense of one’s experiences, then the amateur philosopher will have learned to derive enjoyment from one of the most difficult and rewarding tasks of life.
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答案与大学里的专业哲学家不同。业余哲学家无须顾虑不同流派间为取得优越地位的历史斗争、期刊政治和学者的个人嫉妒心理。
解析 ①本句为主谓宾结构的简单句，worry about的宾语由三个并列名词短语充当。②第一个逗号后的unlike their professional counterparts at universities为插入语，对主语Amateur philosophers进行补充说明。③第一个宾语historical struggles后的for prominence among competing schools作后置定语修饰historical struggles，表示“不同竞争流派间为取得优越地位的历史斗争”。
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