{"id":22,"date":"2005-07-15T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/the-missing-philosopher\/"},"modified":"2005-07-15T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-16T06:11:00","slug":"the-missing-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/the-missing-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"The missing philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The philosophical blogosphere is abuzz about a silly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/history\/inourtime\/greatest_philosopher_vote_result.shtml\">BBC poll<\/a> to name the ten greatest philosophers of all time.  (See <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2005\/06\/07\/choose-the-greatest-philosopher-of-all-time\/\">Crooked Timber<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/3quarksdaily.blogs.com\/3quarksdaily\/2005\/07\/karl_marx_wins_.html\">3quarksdaily<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/applecidercheesefudge.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/its-me-damnit-me.html\">applecidercheesefudge<\/a>, and links therein.) Now you know why history&#8217;s greatest thinkers, like the nation&#8217;s college football champions, should not be chosen by popular vote: Karl Marx came in first, while Aristotle couldn&#8217;t muster better than ninth.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to point out that, in a world where disciplinary boundaries were drawn more rationally, the runaway winner would have been Sir Isaac Newton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The philosophical blogosphere is abuzz about a silly BBC poll to name the ten greatest philosophers of all time. (See Crooked Timber, 3quarksdaily, applecidercheesefudge, and links therein.) Now you know why history&#8217;s greatest thinkers, like the nation&#8217;s college football champions, should not be chosen by popular vote: Karl Marx came in first, while Aristotle couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}