{"id":6545,"date":"2016-04-02T06:27:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T06:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/02\/philosophy-and-chess\/"},"modified":"2016-04-02T06:27:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T06:27:40","slug":"philosophy-and-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/02\/philosophy-and-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy and Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both can be utterly absorbing, and yet both can appear in a ridiculous light.  Thus both can appear to be insignificant pursuits far removed from 'reality.'  The difference is that only philosophy can tackle the inevitable question, What is reality?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The denigrator of philosophy himself philosophizes, unlike the denigrator of chess who remains outside chess.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it usually does no good to point out to the denigrator of philosophy that he presupposes an understanding of reality and thus himself philosophizes in an inarticulate and uncritical way.  For he is too lazy and unserious to profit from the remark:  he does not want truth; he is content to wallow in the shallow opinions he happens to have — and that have him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Both can be utterly absorbing, and yet both can appear in a ridiculous light.  Thus both can appear to be insignificant pursuits far removed from 'reality.'  The difference is that only philosophy can tackle the inevitable question, What is reality? The denigrator of philosophy himself philosophizes, unlike the denigrator of chess who remains outside chess. … Continue reading “Philosophy and Chess”<\/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":[169,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","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=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}