{"id":9442,"date":"2012-08-19T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/19\/doubt-the-engine-of-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2012-08-19T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T13:47:40","slug":"doubt-the-engine-of-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/19\/doubt-the-engine-of-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubt, the Engine of Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Paul Brunton, <em>Notebooks<\/em>, vol. 13, part II, p. 10, #48:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It is the first operation of&#0160; philosophical training to instill doubt, to free the mind of all those numerous suggestions and distortions imposed on it by others since childhood and maintained by its own slavish acceptance, total unawareness, or natural incapacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Or as I have put it more than once in these pages: Doubt is the engine of inquiry, the motor of mental development.&#0160;Of course, doubting&#0160; and questioning are not ends in themselves, but means to the attainment of such insight as it is possible for us to attain.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Brunton, Notebooks, vol. 13, part II, p. 10, #48: It is the first operation of&#0160; philosophical training to instill doubt, to free the mind of all those numerous suggestions and distortions imposed on it by others since childhood and maintained by its own slavish acceptance, total unawareness, or natural incapacity. Or as I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/19\/doubt-the-engine-of-inquiry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doubt, the Engine of Inquiry&#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":[208,20,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brunton","category-metaphilosophy","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442","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=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}