{"id":4383,"date":"2010-09-15T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2010\/09\/15\/philosophy-in-the-city-and-village"},"modified":"2010-09-15T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T16:05:00","slug":"philosophy-in-the-city-and-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2010\/09\/15\/philosophy-in-the-city-and-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy in the city (and village)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/rpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/07\/a6574-liverpool_takeover1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517179593084985202\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/rpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/07\/a6574-liverpool_takeover1.jpg?w=300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Famous Liverpool Sophists<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Those misguided amongst you who thought Athens was the birthplace of philosophy are wrong: it was Liverpool (remember Plato&#8217;s Cavern?), and to celebrate this fact there is a two-week <a href=\"http:\/\/philosophyinthecity.info\/festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philosophy in the City<\/a> festival which will bring many leading philosophers to a number of cultural centres in Liverpool. It starts on <strong>10th October<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re looking for something a little more local then the birthplace of Hobbes, the Cotswold village of Malmesbury, has its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophytown.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Hobbes Festival of Ideas <\/a>from <strong>14th-16th October<\/strong>. And, if you really want to be even more local than that, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cheltenhamfestivals.com\/literature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheltenham Literature Festival <\/a>(<strong>8th &#8211; 17th October<\/strong>) has a number of philosophical, or philosophically-related, talks.<\/div>\n<div>So plenty of things going on in October! <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous Liverpool Sophists Those misguided amongst you who thought Athens was the birthplace of philosophy are wrong: it was Liverpool (remember Plato&#8217;s Cavern?), and to celebrate this fact there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophical","category-philosophy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}