{"id":6688,"date":"2016-02-02T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/maverick-philosopher-passes-35-million-mark\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T13:13:09","slug":"maverick-philosopher-passes-35-million-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/maverick-philosopher-passes-35-million-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Maverick Philosopher III <\/i> Passes 3.5 Million Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This, the third main incarnation of MavPhil, <\/em>commenced operations on Halloween, 2008.  Since then it has racked up 3,501,215 page views.  Daily average:  1,321.21. Total posts:  6,357. Total comments:  8,775.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Here<\/a> are the entries for 31 October 2008.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Will I ever hang up the keyboard?  I've been at this, almost daily, since May of 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can't see myself quitting as long as health and eyesight hold out.  Blogging is just too deeply satisfying.<\/span><\/p>\n

For one thing it satisfies the need to teach of someone who hated most classroom teaching.  Philosophy is a magnificent, beautiful, and noble thing,  but it is wasted on the typical undergraduate.  In a class of 35, five might be worth teaching.  And I taught at good schools.  That is one of the reasons I resigned a tenured position at the age of 41.  If you are reading this, you want to be here, and I'm glad to have you.
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Second, blogging attracts the like-minded.  Isolation is relieved and friendships are made, the genuine friendships of spiritual affinity as opposed to the superficial ones of mere propinquity.  Ralph Waldo Emerson would have been a blogger for sure.  "The good of publishing one's thoughts is that of hooking you to like-minded men, and of giving to men whom you value . . . one hour of stimulated thought." (Bliss Perry, The Heart of Emerson's Journals<\/em>, p. 94.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Third, blogging is superior to private journal writing because the publicity of it forces one to develop one's ideas more carefully and more thoroughly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth, the blogger has a reach that far exceeds that of the person who publishes in conventional ways.  <\/span><\/p>\n

More Reasons to Blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This, the third main incarnation of MavPhil, commenced operations on Halloween, 2008.  Since then it has racked up 3,501,215 page views.  Daily average:  1,321.21. Total posts:  6,357. Total comments:  8,775.   Here are the entries for 31 October 2008. Will I ever hang up the keyboard?  I've been at this, almost daily, since May of … Continue reading “Maverick Philosopher III <\/i> Passes 3.5 Million Mark”<\/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":[92,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6688","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\/6688","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=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}