{"id":1543,"date":"2026-01-29T13:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:59:29","slug":"philosophy-as-a-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/philosophy-as-a-way-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy as a Way of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1544\" src=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/confucian-philosopher-mencius-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"confucian-philosopher\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/confucian-philosopher-mencius-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/confucian-philosopher-mencius-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/confucian-philosopher-mencius.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe purpose of this article is to advertise <em>someone else&#8217;s<\/em> work, in this case one who served as my first supervisor during my doctoral studies. Dr Betenson has since left academia, and is undertaking a philosophical life around farming and family, but has a site full of great philosophical ruminations.<\/p>\n<p>This article, in particular, is a great read: <a href=\"https:\/\/tobybetenson.com\/2025\/08\/02\/on-being-someone-who-has-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tobybetenson.com\/2025\/08\/02\/on-being-someone-who-has-something-to-say\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The blog itself can be subscribed to and you get emails or alerts if that is your thing, I thoroughly recommend it if you like to be challenged in your thinking which is of course, one of the principles of Socratic thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this article is to advertise someone else&#8217;s work, in this case one who served as my first supervisor during my doctoral studies. Dr Betenson has since left academia, and is undertaking a philosophical life around farming and family, but has a site full of great philosophical ruminations. This article, in particular, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"tags":[367,366],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-philosophy-of-religion","tag-ancient-greek-philosophy","tag-socrates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}