Philosophobia

Steve Wilkens had a problem. He had just gotten
a job teaching introductory college courses in
philosophy. Now there's nothing wrong with that,
except that Wilkens had never actually taken an
introductory philosophy course, and he was
afraid of the subject.

In his latest book, he explains why he was afraid
of the subject. In his undergraduate years, he
writes, "While no one ever said it explicitly, a
message had been quite effectively communicated
from all the sources I relied on for good advice:
Stay away from philosophy. It isn't the type of thing
that is good for a Christian. In fact, it is downright
dangerous. It may not be on any list of official
psychological disorders, but I had a severe case
of 'philosophobia,'" he says.

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