The practical philosopher is the universal knowledge profession that doesn't exist yet. I picture a knowledge bearer who's a midwife of wisdom and a weather vane for data and meaning.
How the word moved
I first sketched it in Nov 2014 in The Society of Knowledge, and in hindsight it's the seed of Socratus. In Oct 2019 I reused the same passage in Presearch.
In my words
"A knowledge bearer should be closer to a philosopher, a practical philosopher, than a possessor of arcane information." (2014-11-29 Newsletter 18 The Society of Knowledge (2).md)
Related
- Inherited from Socrates - what I take from Socrates is the midwife of wisdom.
- Related Presearch - Presearch reuses the passage.
- Related Worldmaker - the worldmaker is the philosopher as a profession, like civil engineering.