{"id":7691,"date":"2014-09-16T06:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/16\/philosophy-pride-and-humility\/"},"modified":"2014-09-16T06:01:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T06:01:48","slug":"philosophy-pride-and-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/16\/philosophy-pride-and-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy, Pride, and Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philosophy can fuel intellectual pride. And it manifestly does in far too many of its practitioners.  But pursued far enough and deep enough it may lead to insight into the infirmity of reason, an insight one salutary benefit of which is intellectual humility.  Our patron saint was known for his knowing nescience, his learned ignorance.  It was that which made Socrates wise.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Philosophy can fuel intellectual pride. And it manifestly does in far too many of its practitioners.  But pursued far enough and deep enough it may lead to insight into the infirmity of reason, an insight one salutary benefit of which is intellectual humility.  Our patron saint was known for his knowing nescience, his learned ignorance.  … Continue reading “Philosophy, Pride, and Humility”<\/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":[69,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-metaphilosophy","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","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=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}