{"id":4309,"date":"2018-08-19T13:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/19\/from-religion-to-philosophy-a-typology-of-motives-for-making-the-move\/"},"modified":"2018-08-19T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:42:55","slug":"from-religion-to-philosophy-a-typology-of-motives-for-making-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/19\/from-religion-to-philosophy-a-typology-of-motives-for-making-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"From Religion to Philosophy: A Typology of Motives for Making the Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">People come to philosophy from various &#39;places.&#39;&#0160; Some come from religion, others from mathematics and the natural sciences, still others from literature and the arts.&#0160; There are other&#0160;<em>termini a quis<\/em>&#0160;as well.&#0160; In this post I am concerned only with the move from religion to philosophy.&#0160; What are the main types of reasons for those who&#0160;are concerned with religion to take up the serious study of philosophy?&#0160; I count five main types of motive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher_stri\/2018\/08\/from-religion-to-philosophy-a-typology-of-motives-for-making-the-move.html\">Read the whole thing <\/a>at <em>Maverick Philosopher: Strictly Philosophical<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People come to philosophy from various &#39;places.&#39;&#0160; Some come from religion, others from mathematics and the natural sciences, still others from literature and the arts.&#0160; There are other&#0160;termini a quis&#0160;as well.&#0160; In this post I am concerned only with the move from religion to philosophy.&#0160; What are the main types of reasons for those who&#0160;are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/19\/from-religion-to-philosophy-a-typology-of-motives-for-making-the-move\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Religion to Philosophy: A Typology of Motives for Making the Move&#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":[20,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","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=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}