{"id":8662,"date":"2013-07-08T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/nescio-dutch-author\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T11:05:57","slug":"nescio-dutch-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/nescio-dutch-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Nescio, Dutch Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I learned yesterday that there was a Dutch novelist (1882-1961) who rejoiced under the pen name, <em>Nescio<\/em>, which is Latin for <em>I don&#39;t know<\/em>.&#0160; His <em>Amsterdam Stories<\/em> is now<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/22\/books\/review\/amsterdam-stories-by-nescio.html?_r=0\" target=\"_self\"> available in English<\/a>.&#0160; Memo to self: get a copy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>Nescio<\/em> would be a good title for a philosopher&#39;s weblog.&#0160; Plato&#39;s Socrates is the hero and patron saint of philosophers, and he was the man who knew his ignorance.&#0160; Intellectual humility is built into philosophy&#39;s name, <em>philosophia<\/em>, which signifies the acquisitive love of wisdom, not its possession.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ideologues possess, or think they do.&#0160; Philosophy dispossesses them of their pretended possessions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Nowadays it is perhaps the ideologues of neurobabble who are in direst need of such dispossession.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned yesterday that there was a Dutch novelist (1882-1961) who rejoiced under the pen name, Nescio, which is Latin for I don&#39;t know.&#0160; His Amsterdam Stories is now available in English.&#0160; Memo to self: get a copy! Nescio would be a good title for a philosopher&#39;s weblog.&#0160; Plato&#39;s Socrates is the hero and patron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/08\/nescio-dutch-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nescio, Dutch Author&#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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662","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=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}