{"id":8212,"date":"2014-01-08T13:18:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/08\/e-j-lowe-1950-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T13:18:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:18:27","slug":"e-j-lowe-1950-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/08\/e-j-lowe-1950-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"E. J. Lowe (1950 – 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lowe\"<\/a>Via Feser<\/a> comes word of the passing of E. J. Lowe, prominent contemporary metaphysician.  Only 63!  That's young for a philosopher.  Some will disagree, but I've heard it said, and I agree, that philosophy is an old man's game, and if the country of old age begins at 60, Lowe had just taken his first baby steps into it.  But he made a contribution and all who labor in these vineyards should be grateful.<\/span><\/p>\n

So carpe diem<\/em> my friends, the hour of death is near for young and old alike.  And how would you like death to find you?  In what condition, and immersed in which activity?  Contemplating the eternal or stuck in the mud of the mundane or lost in the diaspora of sensuous indulgence?<\/span><\/p>\n

For some of us the harvest years come late and we hope for many such years in which  to reap what we have sown, but we dare not count on them.  For another and greater Reaper is gaining on us and we cannot stay the hand that wields the scythe that will cut us down.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Feser comes word of the passing of E. J. Lowe, prominent contemporary metaphysician.  Only 63!  That's young for a philosopher.  Some will disagree, but I've heard it said, and I agree, that philosophy is an old man's game, and if the country of old age begins at 60, Lowe had just taken his first … Continue reading “E. J. Lowe (1950 – 2014)”<\/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":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212","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=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}