{"id":10096,"date":"2011-12-07T04:50:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T04:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/07\/the-strangeness-of-the-ordinary\/"},"modified":"2011-12-07T04:50:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T04:50:28","slug":"the-strangeness-of-the-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/07\/the-strangeness-of-the-ordinary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strangeness of the Ordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">By nature, the philosopher is attuned to the strangeness of the ordinary.&#0160; By experience, he encounters the hostility of those who don&#39;t want to hear about it. &quot;What&#39;s the problem?&quot; they ask querulously.&#0160; I had a colleague who sneeringly dismissed Milton Munitz&#39;s <em>The Mystery of Existence<\/em> by its title alone.&#0160; He bristled at the word &#39;mystery.&#39;&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is a certain sort of prosaic, work-a-day mind that thinks that all is clear or&#0160;can be made clear in short order.&#0160; Overreacting to the mystery-monger, he goes to the opposite extreme.&#0160; Recoiling from the portentousness of a Heidegger, he may adopt the silly stance of a Paul Edwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Being? Existence?&#0160; What&#39;s the big deal?&#0160; Existence is just a propositional function&#39;s being sometimes true! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For details and polemic, see <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/11\/paul-edwards-heideggers-confusions-a-twofold-ripoff.html\" target=\"_self\">Paul Edwards&#39; <em>Heidegger&#39;s Confusions<\/em>: A Two-Fold Ripoff<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By nature, the philosopher is attuned to the strangeness of the ordinary.&#0160; By experience, he encounters the hostility of those who don&#39;t want to hear about it. &quot;What&#39;s the problem?&quot; they ask querulously.&#0160; I had a colleague who sneeringly dismissed Milton Munitz&#39;s The Mystery of Existence by its title alone.&#0160; He bristled at the word &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/07\/the-strangeness-of-the-ordinary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Strangeness of the Ordinary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}