{"id":8059,"date":"2014-03-24T05:21:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T05:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/24\/naturalism-as-anti-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T05:21:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T05:21:58","slug":"naturalism-as-anti-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/24\/naturalism-as-anti-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturalism as Anti-Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to William Ernest Hocking, to philosophize is to assume that the universe has an objective meaning, one that can be discerned by us.  "And since meanings are something more than the bare facts of the natural order, all philosophy is, in its assumptions, contradictory to naturalism, taking naturalism strictly as the negative doctrine that Nature is all there is." (Types of Philosophy<\/em>, 1929, p. 437)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ah, the endless and enduring pleasures of a well-stocked library!  Of books<\/em>.  Let an EMP, natural or anthropogenic, , bring down the grid.  I'm ready.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to William Ernest Hocking, to philosophize is to assume that the universe has an objective meaning, one that can be discerned by us.  "And since meanings are something more than the bare facts of the natural order, all philosophy is, in its assumptions, contradictory to naturalism, taking naturalism strictly as the negative doctrine that … Continue reading “Naturalism as Anti-Philosophy”<\/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":[238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naturalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059","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=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}