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Unwrapping the Ordinary: Philosophical Projects

"Ordinary life," like "the real world," is an expression often used among academics to refer to such everyday things as ordering lunch, getting a haircut, or finding a place to park. However, when the talk used in these "ordinary affairs" becomes the object of discussion, then we have left "the ordinary." Enter "the academic"! Mixing the two is sometimes a source of amusement, and sometimes simply a sign of bad taste. So I say to the waitress, "I'll have the apple pie," and my philosophically inclined companion asks (referring to my statement, not my decision), "Is that a prediction, an order, or the expression of a hope?" The waitress returns to say, "It's a good thing you chose the apple pie because that's all we have left," and my companion asks, "Did you choose? After all, there were no choices." Observe this progression first, the ordinary, or "ordinary life," then comes philosophy as the occasionally intrusive reflection on the ordinary, and finally, if we wish to go even farther, there is philosophy as the record of that reflection. The thesis here is that doing philosophy, in contrast to merely studying it, especially in the case of education, is simply the task of unwrapping the ordinary. It is making evident what we already know, but may have overlooked. Yet nothing is quite that simple.