{"id":269,"date":"2013-07-29T18:03:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T01:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2013-07-29T18:10:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T01:10:32","slug":"philosophize-this-by-stephen-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/philosophize-this-by-stephen-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophize This! by Stephen West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I have been listening to Philosophize This!<\/em> by Stephen West<\/a> as he discusses pre-Socratic and Socratic philosophers. And it’s really very good. \u00a0It’s even better if you imagine that the narrator is a talking owl. Adds a certain sense of veracity to the proceedings.<\/p>\n

I mean, we’ve all heard you can’t cross the same river twice. But imagine an owl relaying this pre-Socratic wisdom to you. See?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately I have been listening to Philosophize This! by Stephen West as he discusses pre-Socratic and Socratic philosophers. And it’s really very good. \u00a0It’s even better if you imagine that the narrator is a talking owl. Adds a certain sense of veracity to the proceedings. I mean, we’ve all heard you can’t cross the same river twice. But imagine an owl relaying this pre-Socratic wisdom to you. See?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Philosophize This! by Stephen West","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":[14,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info","category-links","category-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-4l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":567,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/book-cat\/","url_meta":{"origin":269,"position":0},"title":"Book Cat","author":"David Raffin","date":"January 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Imagine your favourite book. 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