{"id":9451,"date":"2012-08-17T05:27:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/17\/the-philosopher-and-the-conservative\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:27:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:27:32","slug":"the-philosopher-and-the-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/17\/the-philosopher-and-the-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosopher and the Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One cannot be a philosopher without believing in the power of reason.&#0160; But one cannot be a conservative without doubting its power to order our affairs and ameliorate our condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Equally, one cannot be a philosopher without doubting &#8212; doubt being the engine of inquiry &#8212; and one cannot be a conservative without believing, that is, without accepting as true much that one cannot prove.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">To live well we must somehow tread a razor&#39;s edge between unexamined belief and beliefless examination.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One cannot be a philosopher without believing in the power of reason.&#0160; But one cannot be a conservative without doubting its power to order our affairs and ameliorate our condition. Equally, one cannot be a philosopher without doubting &#8212; doubt being the engine of inquiry &#8212; and one cannot be a conservative without believing, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/17\/the-philosopher-and-the-conservative\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Philosopher and the Conservative&#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":[69,64,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-conservatism","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451","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=9451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}