{"id":14257,"date":"2020-05-19T19:26:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=14257"},"modified":"2020-05-19T19:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:26:15","slug":"filosofy-do-you-like-philosophy-if-so-who-is-your-favorite-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/05\/19\/filosofy-do-you-like-philosophy-if-so-who-is-your-favorite-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"Filosofy: Do you like philosophy, if so who is your favorite philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I do, and BC is a great place to do it. Elsewhere on campus there are lots of fans of Kant and Kierkegaard and Husserl and Aquinas. But you&#8217;re asking me. I have a real affection for the pre-Socratic philosophers whose work mostly survives as fragments. It makes them look hyper-focused on one tiny thing. I kinda like Xenophanes, who said that if horses could paint their gods they would paint them as horses.https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-horse-gods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do, and BC is a great place to do it. Elsewhere on campus there are lots of fans of Kant and Kierkegaard and Husserl and Aquinas. But you&#8217;re asking me. I have a real affection for the pre-Socratic philosophers whose work mostly survives as fragments. It makes them look hyper-focused on one tiny thing. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/05\/19\/filosofy-do-you-like-philosophy-if-so-who-is-your-favorite-philosopher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Filosofy: Do you like philosophy, if so who is your favorite philosopher&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14258,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257\/revisions\/14258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}