{"id":48,"date":"2005-06-09T21:06:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T21:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phlogma.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-06-10T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T19:45:00","slug":"philosophical-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/general\/philosophical-suicides-48","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. [Mill, <em>On Liberty<\/em>, chapter II, par. 20.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think of Socrates and Otto Weininger, the only two philosophers I know of whose deaths were a direct consequence of their <em>philosophical<\/em> convictions. (If we exclude Peregrinus, the ancient cynic, who leaped into a bonfire to make a point during one of the early Olympic games. He was probably disgusted by the corruption even then.)<\/p>\n<p>I imagine Weininger in a gun shop in Vienna. The clerk asks, &#8220;What does a philosopher do with a gun?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. [Mill, On Liberty, chapter II, par. 20.] I think of Socrates and Otto Weininger, the only two philosophers I know of whose deaths were a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/general\/philosophical-suicides-48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Philosophical suicides&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-j-s-mill","category-weininger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}