{"id":10360,"date":"2011-09-14T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/14\/on-wanting-all-of-life-to-be-wise-and-philosophical\/"},"modified":"2011-09-14T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:14:30","slug":"on-wanting-all-of-life-to-be-wise-and-philosophical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/14\/on-wanting-all-of-life-to-be-wise-and-philosophical\/","title":{"rendered":"On Wanting All of Life to be Wise and Philosophical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">From Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837):<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>Nessun maggior segno d&#39;essere poco filosofo e poco savio, che volere savia e filosofica tutta la vita.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There&#39;s no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">(Giacomo Leopardi, <em>Pensieri<\/em>, tr. W. S. Di Piero, Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1981, p. 69) Do you see how the translation imports an ambiguity that is not present in the Italian original?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837): Nessun maggior segno d&#39;essere poco filosofo e poco savio, che volere savia e filosofica tutta la vita. There&#39;s no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. (Giacomo Leopardi, Pensieri, tr. W. S. Di Piero, Baton Rouge: Lousiana State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/14\/on-wanting-all-of-life-to-be-wise-and-philosophical\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Wanting All of Life to be Wise and Philosophical&#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":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360","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=10360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}