A slight delay
I remember when my blog was active that I would occasionally have to apologise for the lack of posts. I am pleased to announce that tradition is being maintained. I am teach a summer subject (here in Oz, that is January), and this time I’m doing all the lectures as a result of being awarded a “periodical teaching associate” position.
However, one point about the recent doctorate debacle: apart from the inherent white guy misogyny and homophobia evinced by some random BA graduate, the Latin term “doctor” comes from the medieval period in which someone was a teacher, not a medical person, which came later as my friend, historian Thony Christie, noted (on the same accusation against Dr Biden) a while back.
I also would like to note, for those Catholic conservatives involved that Aquinas was called the “Angelic Doctor” (Doctor Angelicus) in the 15th century, and the Doctor Communis (common doctor) in the 14th century, and he was not the medical kind.
The way things have evolved since the 19th century, “doctor” is the highest degree one may get in Anglophone formal education. There is nothing higher. And most physicians are not Doctors, although they are doctors.