A vocation is a name, an invitation from Jesus Christ to observe him in a selected way. Each Christian has a vocation or calling to holiness, however the Lord invites some to follow him by the path of the consecrated life, conforming their lives to the poverty, chastity, and obedience embodied by Christ. A vocation comes from God’s gratuitous love for every individual individual.
How much of this goes for philosophy as nicely? The position of prejudice is much mentioned in our community, as are failures of our system to be meritocratic and the function of luck. I don’t fairly so typically see it mentioned, however I suppose all of us have seen (or felt, in some of our instances) folk affected by the peculiar type of bitterness which ends up from the following combination of beliefs: that things ought be a meritocracy, that in such a system one can …