{"id":8081,"date":"2014-03-12T07:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T07:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/12\/the-philosopher-and-the-thief\/"},"modified":"2014-03-12T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T07:19:39","slug":"the-philosopher-and-the-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/12\/the-philosopher-and-the-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosopher and the Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">John Kaag in<em> Harper&#39;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-philosopher-and-the-thief\/\" target=\"_self\">tells a fascinating story<\/a> of William Ernest Hocking and his library, and he tells it well. (HT: Seldom Seen Slim)&#0160; No bibliophile could fail to enjoy it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And this raises one of life&#39;s greatest mysteries.&#0160; Why do some of us value good books above bread while others of us are indifferent to them?&#0160; A harsh answer tempts me: the latter are human only in a biological sense.&#0160; But I warn myself not to succumb to misanthropy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/s\/john%20kaag\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is John Kaag&#39;s <em>PhilPapers<\/em> page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I have wrtten at least two Hocking entries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/04\/hocking-on-the-anarchist-and-the-criminal.html\" target=\"_self\">Hocking on the Anarchist and the Criminal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/04\/hocking-on-the-value-of-the-individual.html\" target=\"_self\">Hocking on the Value of the Individual<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kaag in Harper&#39;s tells a fascinating story of William Ernest Hocking and his library, and he tells it well. (HT: Seldom Seen Slim)&#0160; No bibliophile could fail to enjoy it. And this raises one of life&#39;s greatest mysteries.&#0160; Why do some of us value good books above bread while others of us are indifferent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/12\/the-philosopher-and-the-thief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Philosopher and the Thief&#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":[196,389,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-bibliophilia","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081","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=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}