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Is "What Are Philosophers For?" byPhilt~~~phy Richard Rorty, in The Center Magazine (Sept.-Oct. 1983), Center for the Study of Philosophers Do Democratic Institutions, P.O. Box 4068,
Santa Barbara, Cal. 93103.
Few contemporary philosophers grapple with political and social is- sues in the way that Plato, John Locke, or Jean-Jacques Rousseau did. Where, one might ask, have all the sages gone?
"Only a Philistine would ask such a question," a...