{"id":10318,"date":"2011-09-28T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/28\/lifes-optics-versus-thoughts-synoptics\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T12:36:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:36:51","slug":"lifes-optics-versus-thoughts-synoptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/28\/lifes-optics-versus-thoughts-synoptics\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Optics Versus Thought&#8217;s Synoptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One cannot live without being onesided, without choosing, preferring, favoring oneself and one&#39;s own, without staking out and defending one&#39;s bit of ground.&#0160; One cannot live without being onesided, but one cannot be much of a philosopher if one is.&#0160; The philosopher&#39;s optics&#0160;are a synoptics, but life&#39;s&#0160;optics are perspectival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And so philosophy is enlivened at the approach of decline, death, and doom.&#0160; The owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One cannot live without being onesided, without choosing, preferring, favoring oneself and one&#39;s own, without staking out and defending one&#39;s bit of ground.&#0160; One cannot live without being onesided, but one cannot be much of a philosopher if one is.&#0160; The philosopher&#39;s optics&#0160;are a synoptics, but life&#39;s&#0160;optics are perspectival. And so philosophy is enlivened at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/28\/lifes-optics-versus-thoughts-synoptics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life&#8217;s Optics Versus Thought&#8217;s Synoptics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,39,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}