{"id":1269,"date":"2023-08-26T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/chariots-of-philosophical-fire\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T13:55:00","slug":"chariots-of-philosophical-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/chariots-of-philosophical-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Chariots of Philosophical Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The University of Oxford dominated philosophy in the twentieth century. Three new books examine the brilliant if eccentric minds nurtured there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/chariots-of-philosophical-fire\">Excerpt<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Parfit was another maniac who came to possess a religious fervor for philosophy. As Edmonds affectionately details, Parfit would read while brushing his teeth, and he\u2019d read\u2014naked\u2014while riding on his recumbent exercise bike. He\u2019d take meetings at 3 a.m. Some philosophical discussions could last six hours. It was not unusual for Parfit to return 50 pages of comments on a draft paper written by anyone, whether a tenured professor or a visiting student. Parfit once followed Bernard Williams to his car and stood in the rain, pounding the hood of the car trying to convince Williams that morality had an objective foundation. Williams ignored Parfit and drove off, leaving him in a storm.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">I have the Edmonds bio. It is superb.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Oxford dominated philosophy in the twentieth century. Three new books examine the brilliant if eccentric minds nurtured there. Excerpt: Parfit was another maniac who came to possess a religious fervor for philosophy. As Edmonds affectionately details, Parfit would read while brushing his teeth, and he\u2019d read\u2014naked\u2014while riding on his recumbent exercise bike. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/chariots-of-philosophical-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chariots of Philosophical Fire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","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=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}