{"id":11088,"date":"2010-11-26T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/26\/why-philosophy-matters\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T16:00:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T16:00:32","slug":"why-philosophy-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/26\/why-philosophy-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Philosophy Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Nicholas Rescher, <em>The Strife of Systems<\/em> (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985), p. 229:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The life of the mind, of which rational inquiry is an integral component, is an essential constituent of our conception of the human good.&#0160; And rational inquiry leads inexorably to philosophizing.&#0160; For we engage in philosophy not (merely) because it is intellectually diverting &#8212; a game one can play for its own sake.&#0160; It orients our thought, clarifies our values, guides our actions.&#0160; Philosophy matters because it clarifies and systematizes our thought about issues that matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Rescher, The Strife of Systems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985), p. 229: The life of the mind, of which rational inquiry is an integral component, is an essential constituent of our conception of the human good.&#0160; And rational inquiry leads inexorably to philosophizing.&#0160; For we engage in philosophy not (merely) because it is intellectually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/26\/why-philosophy-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Philosophy Matters&#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-11088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088","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=11088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}