Philosophobia (n.)

An irrational fear of philosophy, or indeed any kind of thinking that might question, undermine or otherwise call into doubt thoughts and ideas that are held in the mistaken belief that they actually make sense, when in fact they are—as philosophers would put it—a pile of old pants.

Those that exhibit symptoms of philosophobia may have acquired the condition as a result of insufficient contact with other ways of thinking and cultures, adopting dogmatic or inflexible mental habits, or as a result of joining the ever-popular ‘cult of stupid’.

Note that philosophers themselves are not immune from philosophobia—see ‘metatheology’ for details.

Posted on Tuesday - May 17, 2005 at 09:35 AM

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Philosophobia (n.)

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