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Lecture of the Winter semester 1784-1785 Based on the Transcription Mrongovius, Marienburg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2013

Robert B. Louden
Affiliation:
University of Southern Maine
Allen W. Wood
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Robert R. Clewis
Affiliation:
Gwynedd-Mercy College, Pennsylvania
G. Felicitas Munzel
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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FIRST CHAPTER INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY

There are two ways to study: in school and in the world. In school one studies scholastic cognitions, which belong to scholars by profession; but in social intercourse with the world one studies popular cognitions, which belong to the whole world. –

Now whoever wants to apply scholastic cognitions, which one uses only in the school and in scholarly writings, for use in the world without seeing whether or not they hold interest, is a pedant, namely, a pedant with regard to the subject matter; but if he actually has a great deal of knowledge and merely does not know how to make his knowledge understandable except in methodical form, then he is a pedant with regard to the manner.

The word “pedant” originally comes from Latin, for in Italy one called the domestic tutors magistri pedanei.The Italian word pedanto came from this, as one left off the magistrio and changed pedanei into pedanto; hence today theGerman word Pedant.These people were supposedly not to be received outside of their study rooms; they thus applied only their school knowledge when they were in social intercourse and therefore gave people the occasion to call a person who did not know how to conduct himself with human beings a “pedant.” A pedant can make only a scholastic use of his knowledge because he does not know how to apply it any better and does not know any other use for it.

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Print publication year: 2012

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