{"id":9088,"date":"2013-01-04T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/04\/religion-always-buries-its-undertakers\/"},"modified":"2013-01-04T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T12:26:16","slug":"religion-always-buries-its-undertakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/04\/religion-always-buries-its-undertakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion Always Buries its Undertakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Christopher Hitchens has been dead for over a year now.&#0160; He will&#0160; be joined by Dennett and Dawkins, Grayling and Harris, and the rest of the militant atheists.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Religion, like philosophy, always buries its undertakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It was Etienne Gilson who famously remarked that &quot;Philosophy always buries its undertakers.&quot;&#0160; That is the first of his &quot;laws of philosophical experience.&quot; (<em>The Unity of Philosophical Experience<\/em>, Scribners, 1937, p. 306) As a metaphilosophical pronunciamento it is hard to beat.&#0160; It is equally true that <em>philosophy always resurrects its dead<\/em>.&#0160; Let that be my first law.&#0160; The history of natural science is littered with corpses, none of which is an actual or potential Lazarus.&#0160; Not so in philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I continue the thought in<a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/02\/philosophy-always-resurrects-its-dead.html\" target=\"_self\"> Philosophy Always Resurrects its Dead<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens has been dead for over a year now.&#0160; He will&#0160; be joined by Dennett and Dawkins, Grayling and Harris, and the rest of the militant atheists.&#0160; Religion, like philosophy, always buries its undertakers. It was Etienne Gilson who famously remarked that &quot;Philosophy always buries its undertakers.&quot;&#0160; That is the first of his &quot;laws &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/04\/religion-always-buries-its-undertakers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Religion Always Buries its Undertakers&#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":[20,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088","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=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}