Issue 49, 2nd quarter 2010
Practical Wisdom
Julian Baggini
Pages 75-76
Floated on the ideas market
“I would go into a lunch of stockbrokers who would be coming to listen to the business philosopher, and I felt so nervous because I thought I was supposed to tell them where they should be putting their clients’ money on the basis of my knowledge of the history of ideas. I felt such a failure because I didn’t know what they should do with their clients’ funds.”