{"id":2416,"date":"2010-11-05T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/de0685f6c2f3308e"},"modified":"2010-12-21T17:27:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T01:27:39","slug":"best-definition-of-our-role-as-philosophers-michel-serres-the-committee-for-the-aswan-dam-in-egypt-had-all-specialities-except-1-an-egyptologist-2-a-philosopher-question-egyptologi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/best-definition-of-our-role-as-philosophers-michel-serres-the-committee-for-the-aswan-dam-in-egypt-had-all-specialities-except-1-an-egyptologist-2-a-philosopher-question-egyptologi\/","title":{"rendered":"Best definition of our role as philosophers. Michel Serres: &quot;The Committee for the Aswan dam in Egypt had all specialities except: 1) an egyptologist; 2) a philosopher.&quot; QUESTION: Egyptologist, OK, but why did they need a philosopher? REPLY: &quot; He would have noticed the absence of the egyptologist&quot;. [via Jean-Claude Carriere]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best definition of our role as philosophers. Michel Serres: &#8220;The Committee for the Aswan dam in Egypt had all specialities except: 1) an egyptologist; 2) a philosopher.&#8221; QUESTION: Egyptologist, OK, but why did they need a philosopher? REPLY: &#8221; He would have noticed the absence of the egyptologist&#8221;. [via Jean-Claude Carriere]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best definition of our role as philosophers. Michel Serres: &#8220;The Committee for the Aswan dam in Egypt had all specialities except: 1) an egyptologist; 2) a philosopher.&#8221; QUESTION: Egyptologist, OK, but why did they need a philosopher? REPLY: &#8221; He would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}