Meaning of phobosophy | Babel Free

Definitions

The fear of abstract knowledge or philosophical thinking; anti-philosophy.

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Examples

“The great advantage of anti-philosophical philosophy, or what we might call⟳ phobosophy or fear of abstract knowledge, was that it enabled you to take⟳ the world exactly as you found it and adapt yourself to it to your own⟳ best advantage.”

“It is a remarkable doctrine which,[…f]ar from being “a philosophy of religion,” it is much rather a phobosophy, a fear of knowledge — neither essentially philosophic nor religious.”

“Philosophy is, literally, the love⟳ of knowledge; phobosophy is the fear of it. There are obviously more “phobosophers” in the world than philosophers.”

“Bernal believed strongly that the whole of modern philosophy, save⟳ for Marxism, had let⟳ the spirit of the Enlightenment down, which he blamed on the rise⟳ of phobosophy or the fear of abstract thinking.”

“‘[T]he best thoughts [of these scholars] could well be omitted’?? There must be a mistake⟳. I couldn’t imagine⟳ such a severe case of phobosophy.”

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