{"id":628,"date":"2018-12-31T21:55:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T21:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=628"},"modified":"2018-12-31T21:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T21:55:39","slug":"ratio-praecox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/ratio-praecox\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratio Praecox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width='260' height='192' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/socrates1.jpg' alt='' \/>When I was taught introductory philosophy by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/news-photo\/harvard-university-professor-raphael-demos-sitting-in-his-news-photo\/50338591?Language=en-US\">Rafael Demos<\/a>, and he explained that philosophy was invented to wean Greeks from irrationality and teach them to think rationally, I thought (stupidly): How silly and anachronistic to still be teaching philosophy today! After all, humankind outgrew irrationality long since the Greeks\u2026<\/p>\n<p>By the same token, after the fall of colonialism, and then of the Iron Curtain, when some argued that it will take generations for the newly liberated peoples to understand and practice democracy, I thought (stupidly) How silly! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-04-04\/hungary-sued-for-political-interference-in-radio-frequency-bids.html\">Democracy is as self-evident as rationality<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was taught introductory philosophy by Rafael Demos, and he explained that philosophy was invented to wean Greeks from irrationality and teach them to think rationally, I thought (stupidly): How silly and anachronistic to still be teaching philosophy today! After all, humankind outgrew irrationality long since the Greeks\u2026 By the same token, after the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/ratio-praecox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ratio Praecox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}