Badminton Ethics

They only teach sport at his college now, W. says. Only sports, the students running around the track and arriving at his seminars ruddy-faced and healthy looking, with towels around their necks.

W. is having trouble impressing his students with the majesty of thinking, he says. They seem uninterested in Kant, and unengaged by Hegel. But what else can you expect when you're teaching a module on badminton ethics?