{"id":5264,"date":"2013-08-04T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:37:25","slug":"some-of-my-favourite-thinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5264","title":{"rendered":"Some of my favourite thinkers…"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a good number of writers and thinkers who have had an identifiable impact upon the way that I think. Here are three:<\/p>\n

Martha Nussbaum<\/a>, specifically her ‘Fragility of Goodness’, and even more specifically her arguments about Aristotle and contemplation;<\/p>\n

Mary Midgley<\/a>, especially her ‘Science as Salvation;<\/p>\n

Janet Radcliffe Richards<\/a>, her book ‘The Sceptical Feminist’ which, amongst other things, cured me of any naive use of ‘natural’ as a justification for anything.<\/p>\n

I think Susan Haack<\/a> might yet be added to their number, but I haven’t got to grips with her ‘Passionate Moderate’ stuff yet.<\/p>\n

Why am I writing all this? Because I read this article<\/a>. Which is incredibly sad in all sorts of different ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a good number of writers and thinkers who have had an identifiable impact upon the way that I think. Here are three: Martha Nussbaum, specifically her ‘Fragility of Goodness’, and even more specifically her arguments about Aristotle and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-1mU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5265,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}