{"id":2517,"date":"2021-07-25T07:28:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T07:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/my-ideal-reader\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T07:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T07:28:27","slug":"my-ideal-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/my-ideal-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ideal Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">A lover of language, precise in its use, respectful of its mothership* of our thoughts, analytic but not conceptually myopic, out for the Sellarsian big picture, non-dogmatic and therefore skeptical in the best sense, which is to say, an inquirer, but not a worldling mesmerized by the sublunary, and therefore spiritually oriented. And his attitude toward academic or professional philosophy? At once both respectful and critical.&#0160; And similarly with respect to every institution and everything institutionalized:&#0160; respectful but critical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Where would we be without institutions? And yet they are like the houses around here: they either have termites or will get them.&#0160; The right attitude: we fumigate, not demolish, edifices infested with termites.&#0160; The Roman Catholic Church, for example, and the universities. And others as well.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">_____________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">*A neologism, apparently, one that just occurred to me, crafted in parallel to &#39;fathership,&#39; a word recognized by Merriam-Webster.&#0160; And you call me a sexist? And you think conservatives are stick-in-the-muds opposed to everything new?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lover of language, precise in its use, respectful of its mothership* of our thoughts, analytic but not conceptually myopic, out for the Sellarsian big picture, non-dogmatic and therefore skeptical in the best sense, which is to say, an inquirer, but not a worldling mesmerized by the sublunary, and therefore spiritually oriented. And his attitude &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/my-ideal-reader\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Ideal Reader&#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":[214,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-and-writing","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","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=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}