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Diogenes’ tub and the double bind of science and vocation in the late Middle Ages (2024)

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Professions and professionalization Personality of the scientist Knowledge production (modes) Academia; academic community and profession Universities and colleges Intellectuals Medieval Berkel, Klaas van Kaldewey, David Shapin, Steven B. Weber, Max

Intellectuals tend to cherish heroes who embody their ideal way of life. The fact that the personas of the unworldly Greek philosophers Diogenes and Crates were so popular in the late Middle Ages proves that Max Weber’s Idealtypus of the “authentic man of science” (as termed by Steven Shapin) has been problematic for centuries. This finding gives cause to modify Max Weber’s and Shapin's viewpoints about the loss of the “authentic man of science” due to professionalization. The development of the university as an educational institution in the High Middle Ages chained the academic once and for all to a formal training that costs time and money: investments that were expected to have reward. Soon, university-trained experts were highly appreciated by local and national authorities. By combining Frank Rexroth’s and Marcel Bubert’s ideas on the coming into being of an “amor sciendi” in the twelfth century Arts faculties, with David Kaldewey’s and Klaas van Berkel’s appeals for academic autonomy, my article argues that academics have always struggled to protect the pursuit of truth, even while they recognized its vital importance from the beginning.

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Authors & Contributors
Shapin, Steven B.
Cohen, H. Floris
Dröscher, Ariane
Hermanowicz, Joseph C.
Higgitt, Rebekah
Lussier, Mark
Journals
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Cold War History
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Publishers
University of Toronto Press
PUF
University of Chicago Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Arizona State University
Concepts
Professions and professionalization
Academia; academic community and profession
Universities and colleges
Personality of the scientist
Scientists
History of science, as a discipline
People
Weber, Max
Berkel, Klaas van
Dijksterhuis, Eduard Jan
Mill, John Stuart
Mulder, Gerrit Jan
Newton, Isaac
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
Medieval
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Paris (France)
Soviet Union
Germany
Italy
Institutions
Université de Paris
Lunar Society of Birmingham (England)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Lambert Academic Publishing
University of Western Ontario (Canada)
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