Phobosophy

Quick meaning: Phobosophy is a noun meaning The fear of abstract knowledge or philosophical thinking; anti-philosophy.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

‘[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.

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

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include philosophobia, phobophobia, phobist, phobism, phobian, phobiaphobia.

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