{"id":84564,"date":"2018-11-07T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/philosophy-professor-sees-platos-cave-in-todays-technologies"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:02:26","slug":"philosophy-professor-sees-platos-cave-in-todays-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/philosophy-professor-sees-platos-cave-in-todays-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Professor Sees \u2018Plato\u2019s Cave\u2019 in Today\u2019s Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/philosophy-professor-sees-platos-cave-in-todays-technologies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is life?<\/p>\n<p>That fundamental question fascinated Babette Babich, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, when she was an undergraduate student, so she majored in biology.<\/p>\n<p>But the answer she was looking for was not to be found in the natural sciences. Instead, she discovered it in the dense texts of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, philosophers whose ideas about life fueled her desire to explore that critical question.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.fordham.edu\/inside-fordham-category\/philosophy-professor-sees-platos-cave-in-todays-technologies\/\">https:\/\/news.fordham.edu\/inside-fordham-category\/philosophy-...hnologies\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is life? That fundamental question fascinated Babette Babich, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, when she was an undergraduate student, so she majored in biology. But the answer she was looking for was not to be found in the natural sciences. Instead, she discovered it in the dense texts of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, philosophers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}