{"id":11106,"date":"2010-11-22T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/22\/why-i-want-to-live-long-2\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:15:24","slug":"why-i-want-to-live-long-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/22\/why-i-want-to-live-long-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Want to Live Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I want to live a long life so as to be able to experience and reflect upon this bizarre predicament from every humanly possible temporal perspective.&#0160;For each age of life has its characteristic insights and illusions.&#0160; Youth has its truth as midlife its crisis, a crisis&#0160;risible to the man ten years beyond it: &quot;What the hell was<em> that <\/em>all about?&quot;&#0160; And as the years roll on, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K7r-V1id038\" target=\"_self\">fire down below<\/a> subsides, certain insights become possible which were not before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk.&#0160; That&#39;s true both phylogenetically, as Hegel intended it, but also ontogenetically.&#0160; And as I once heard Gadamer say, <em>Die Erntejahren eines Gelehrten kommen sp\u00e4t<\/em>.&#0160; &quot;A scholar&#39;s harvest years come late.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to live a long life so as to be able to experience and reflect upon this bizarre predicament from every humanly possible temporal perspective.&#0160;For each age of life has its characteristic insights and illusions.&#0160; Youth has its truth as midlife its crisis, a crisis&#0160;risible to the man ten years beyond it: &quot;What the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/22\/why-i-want-to-live-long-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Want to Live Long&#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":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106","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=11106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}