Pathologies of Professionalism: Invoking Controversial Dialectic—“Per Fas et Nefas,” Through a Performative Courtroom Drama

Abstract

This article applies Schopenhauer’s stratagems to an examination of the professional, within a performative courtroom trial of critical analysis. The Defense submission seeks to sanctify the modern professional as a solidifying force in society. The prosecution employs Schopenhauer’s The Art of Being Right to bring a different definition and history to the concept of the professional. Through this application, the author hopes that you, the reader, might act as jury and so weigh the evidence to find your own guilt/innocence or truth/deceit in the operationalizations of professionalism within society.