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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow The term academic in philosophy is traditionally disparaging. It started off as just one of the philosophy schools in Athens, but it got tied to scholasticism in the middle ages, and the canonization of ideas in a movement. It was later identified as a behavior of select personality types who eventually take over a philosophy movement, and identified in other philosophy movements through history around the planet. Very volumnous, very intellectual, very nonintuitive though logical, and always missing the point.
My school was banned from having it's paltry attempt at a philosophy school within the walls of Athens, it was outside, and we never had scholarchs. I'm talking about the Cynics. We had best had buddy teams to teacher to pupil relations, or wandering packs, but no schools. So it wasn't academic. I'm conservative in this respect, I never take more than one student at a time, so the modern college system is anathema to me.
Later under the reforms of Zeno, who was a cofounder of Stoicism, which grew into a academy in it's own right, did many have scholarchs and advanced logicians. I'm open to the advanced logic but not the widespread school, and there were always Cynic-Stoic hybrids who didn't fully accept it. Christianity when it accepted Neo-Platonism adopted the academic model, as it was a easy fit for their ecclesiastic bishopric model, but I'm not a theologian. So I don't associate much with such people, and rarely pay them the time of day. They usually don't have a advanced understanding of philosophy, especially in this woke era.
