{"id":11308,"date":"2010-09-20T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T12:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/20\/why-philosophical-problems-are-important\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T12:49:40","slug":"why-philosophical-problems-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/20\/why-philosophical-problems-are-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Philosophical Problems are Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Philosophical problems are genuine intellectual knots that show us our intellectual exigency.&#0160; They humble us, whence their importance.&#0160; They rub our noses in the infirmity of reason.&#0160; The central problems are genuine and important but&#0160;humanly insoluble. That is what two millenia of philosophical experience, East and West, teaches.&#0160; Their genuineness is wrongly denied by the Ordinary Language crowd; their spiritual importance by most analytic puzzle-solvers; their absolute insolubility by the optimistic pure theory types.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophical problems are genuine intellectual knots that show us our intellectual exigency.&#0160; They humble us, whence their importance.&#0160; They rub our noses in the infirmity of reason.&#0160; The central problems are genuine and important but&#0160;humanly insoluble. That is what two millenia of philosophical experience, East and West, teaches.&#0160; Their genuineness is wrongly denied by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/20\/why-philosophical-problems-are-important\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Philosophical Problems are Important&#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-11308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308","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=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}