{"id":11429,"date":"2010-07-29T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/29\/we-philosophize-best-with-friends\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T19:59:00","slug":"we-philosophize-best-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/29\/we-philosophize-best-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"We Philosophize Best With Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aristotle says that somewhere, but I forgot where.  In any case, it is true as I verified once again yesterday in Tempe, where I met up with Steven Nemes, Mike Valle, Peter Lupu and his student Scott.  Before joining them I stopped at the library where I borrowed Thomas McKay's Plural Predication<\/em> and Douglas Hyde's I Believed.  <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

The conversation went on for about five hours from 2 to 7.  The 19 year old Nemes has made a fairly thorough study of my book on existence (see <\/font>here<\/font><\/a> for links to the ten posts he has written about it) and we discussed some topics from the book.  He really understands me, and has a keen eye for problems potential and actual.  I jokingly call Nemes my nemesis.  We also discussed free will and Biblical inerrancy.  Steven floated some interesting ideas that he then today began to work out in <\/font>this post.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

It occurred to me today that Peter and I, sitting and smoking out in front of the Churchill cigar emporium, did a good job of instantiating the role of <\/font>Sidewalk Socrates<\/font><\/a>, a role Peter learned from his friend and teacher, Sidney Morgenbesser.  "There are people who have a passion for discourse, who are addicted to debate, who live in a world of constant conversation, and Morgenbesser was among the purest examples of the type."  The description fits Peter as well.  But I chided Peter for being a 'corrupter of youth' when he offered Steven cigarettes.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Aristotle says that somewhere, but I forgot where.  In any case, it is true as I verified once again yesterday in Tempe, where I met up with Steven Nemes, Mike Valle, Peter Lupu and his student Scott.  Before joining them I stopped at the library where I borrowed Thomas McKay's Plural Predication and Douglas Hyde's I Believed.  … Continue reading “We Philosophize Best With Friends”<\/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":[92,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429","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=11429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}