philosophical school, n.Definitions

A Philosophical school (n.) should ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be a clinic for the soul: students should arrive like patients — one with a dislocated shoulder, another an abscess, another a headache.

A Philosophical school (n.) needs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠two presiding philosophers: one who surveys experience adequately but inconsistently, and one who makes it rigidly consistent — and so reduces it to absurdity.

The Philosophical school (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a clinic: you should leave it not pleased but in pain, since everyone arrives with a dislocated shoulder, an abscess, a fistula or a headache.

The Philosophical school (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Epictetus ran was half disciplined boarding school for the young and half open shop where passing adults stopped to ask how to live.

Philosophical school (n.) dies ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠without a successor while a dancer's house is carefully kept up by heirs: people guard a pantomime actor's name from vanishing and let Pyrrho's teaching go.