{"id":3674,"date":"2012-07-02T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T20:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2012-07-03T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T12:48:21","slug":"who-said-philosophy-was-worthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3674","title":{"rendered":"Who said philosophy was worthless?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former 13-year old conservative firebrand Jonathan Krohn<\/a> has had a change of mind, chalks it up to philosophy.  Here's his explanation:<\/p>\n

\n

Krohn is bucking the received wisdom that people become more conservative as they get older, a shift he attributes partly to philosophy.<\/p>\n

“I started reflecting on a lot of what I wrote, just thinking about what I had said and what I had done and started reading a lot of other stuff, and not just political stuff,” Krohn said. “I started getting into philosophy — Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kant and lots of other German philosophers. And then into present philosophers — Saul Kripke, David Chalmers. It was really reading philosophy that didn’t have anything to do with politics that gave me a breather and made me realize that a lot of what I said was ideological blather that really wasn’t meaningful. It wasn’t me thinking. It was just me saying things I had heard so long from people I thought were interesting and just came to believe for some reason, without really understanding it. I understood it enough to talk about it but not really enough to have a conversation about it.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My favorite line: "enough to talk about it but not really enough to have a conversation about it." <\/p>\n

Via Leiter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some discussion of this and the Texas GOP's crusade against critical thinking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former 13-year old conservative firebrand Jonathan Krohn has had a change of mind, chalks it up to philosophy.  Here's his explanation: Krohn is bucking the received wisdom that people become more conservative as they get older, a shift he attributes partly to philosophy. “I started reflecting on a lot of what I wrote, just thinking … Continue reading Who said philosophy was worthless?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1425,2003],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-jonathan-krohn","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3678,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}