Can there be any redemption for these little darlings driven to a life of crime by the lack of a Philosophy teacher at their inner-city understaffed comprehensive school?
"One of the things Moody's was talking about was a lack of gross philosophy, meaning how Japan intends to get its economy moving and deal with the fiscal issues it faces," Mr. Feldman said.
While there are all sorts of discussions about marital sex or lack of sex, philosophy professor Mark D. White says, we rarely, if ever, talk about the ethics of a spouse refusing to have sex with the other for years.
"Eureka," he wrote, "makes no deep impression... because we are aware of Poe's lack of qualification in philosophy, theology or natural science".
Re "Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?" (March 15), about how business schools are reacting to the economic crisis: The American education system has a real deficit: a lack of training in philosophy and ethics.
Those who, in his age, devote themselves to philosophy are bad philosophers for many different reasons: their lack of interest, the obscurity of philosophy and their lack of training and good teachers.
(And for all his complaints about the lack of interest in contemporary philosophy among scientists, his own preference for the early-19th-century German idealist philosophy of Friedrich Schelling, to which he devotes a far-too-slight section, doesn't exactly give you much confidence that they are missing much).
But does Wenger's lack of success undermine his philosophy?
"My great handicap, I find, in dealing with all this is my lack of grounding in German philosophy," he confessed to his old Princeton teacher Christian Gauss in 1937.
