Citations:phobosophy


 * 1949: John Desmond Bernal, The Freedom of Necessity, page 393 (Routledge & Kegan Paul)
 * 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.
 * 1954: The Jewish Quarterly Review, volumes 45–46, page 337 (Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Dropsie University)
 * It is a remarkable doctrine which, as “a philosophy of religion,” rises to propagate the divine nature not of omni-science but of om-nescience, not of all-wisdom but of sigh (see note 26 above) and ignorance. Far from being “a philosophy of religion,” a love of knowledge in religion, it is rather a religion of philagnosy, love of unenlightenment. Far from being “a philosophy of religion,” it is much rather a phobosophy, a fear of knowledge — neither essentially philosophic nor religious.
 * 1973: Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Second Sin, page 21 (Anchor Press)
 * Philosophy is, literally, the love of knowledge; phobosophy is the fear of it. There are obviously more “phobosophers” in the world than philosophers.
 * 1997: Edwin A. Roberts, The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture, page 168 (Rowman & Littlefield ; ISBN 0847683966, 9780847683963)
 * 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.
 * 2000, April 27th: Leslie P. Steffe and Patrick W. Thompson [eds.], Radical Constructivism in Action: Building on the Pioneering Work of Ernst von Glasersfeld, page xiii (Routledge ; ISBN 0750709898, 9780750709897)
 * ‘What’?! I thought when I first read this, ‘the best thoughts [of these scholars] could well be omitted’?? There must be a mistake. I couldn’t imagine such a severe case of phobosophy. But a few lines below you find a gleeful reiteration of the previous position: ‘Philosophic and psychodynamic considerations were omitted.’