{"id":10684,"date":"2011-05-21T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/21\/from-mctaggart-to-rome-3\/"},"modified":"2011-05-21T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T17:32:13","slug":"from-mctaggart-to-rome-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/21\/from-mctaggart-to-rome-3\/","title":{"rendered":"From McTaggart to Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Peter Geach, <strong>Truth and Hope<\/strong>, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, p. 9:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Soaking myself in McTaggart, I imbibed a desire for Heaven and eternal life, which of course I had not to abandon on becoming Catholic; and meanwhile I was preserved from giving my heart with total devotion to some less worthy end, as I saw many contemporaries doing.&#0160; Even as regards the relation of time and eternity I had no need to find McTaggart wholly mistaken.&#0160; God&#39;s life, the life of the Blessed Trinity, really is the sort of Boethian eternity that McTaggart ascribed to all persons; and we have the great and precious promise that, in a way we cannot now begin to understand, we shall transcend all the delusion and misery and wickedness of this life and become sharers in that eternal life. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Geach, Truth and Hope, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, p. 9: Soaking myself in McTaggart, I imbibed a desire for Heaven and eternal life, which of course I had not to abandon on becoming Catholic; and meanwhile I was preserved from giving my heart with total devotion to some less worthy end, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/21\/from-mctaggart-to-rome-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From McTaggart to Rome&#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":[38,735],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heaven-and-hell","category-mctaggart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684","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=10684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}