与其他一些重要但对社会运转无直接贡献的人文学科一样,哲学专业教育需要面临相对复杂的权衡和考量。就现代意义上的大学而言,其任何一个学科的教育,都需考虑三方面的因素:一是对所谓大师的培养,二是对本学科专业工作者的训练,三是对将来从事其他职业的学生的科学启蒙。在某些学科中,对第二点的考虑占压倒性优势,比如计算机语言学。其专业本身的性质,决定了它的教育理念基本预设受教育者将来从事的工作与计算机有关。哲学则不同。鉴于学科自身的性 Like other humanities which are important but have no direct contribution to the functioning of society, philosophy education needs to face relatively complicated tradeoffs and considerations. In the modern sense of the university, the education of any one subject needs to consider three factors: First, the so-called master training, the second is the discipline of professional workers training, the third is engaged in other occupations in the future Students’ scientific enlightenment. In some disciplines, the second consideration accounts for overwhelming advantages, such as computer linguistics. The nature of its profession, which determines its educational philosophy, basically presupposes that educators will engage in computer-related work in the future. Philosophy is different. Given the discipline’s own nature