I suppose I have learnt a *little*, in studying philosophy, but don't feel I have a philosophy, or that I live according to one, or as a philosopher. 

Not simply because I didn't study it very much, but because it seems somewhat too **bold** to claim to have found any meaningful truth, at least if you're not doing serious research in philosophy. Which wouldn't be a philosopher in quite the way I mean, though I assume there are overlaps.


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So that is why I would not call myself a philosopher. 

I don't know what it means to (and being so inclined I think knowing what it means wouldn't change anything) then decide that being a philosopher is unethical, but nevertheless I'm leaning toward it being an *undesirable* quality of a person.

One reason to think this, that being a philosopher is unethical, is that even if philosophy lives on, it's not clear to me (yet!) that its proponents, philosophers, do.

So what counter or supporting arguments are taken seriously in contemporary philosophy?