{"id":11468,"date":"2010-07-12T19:32:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/12\/fruitful-conversation\/"},"modified":"2010-07-12T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:32:28","slug":"fruitful-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/12\/fruitful-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruitful Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">E. M. Cioran, <em>Drawn and Quartered<\/em>, p. 163:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Conversation is fruitful only between minds given to consolidating their perplexities. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A brilliant aphorism. Philosophy, as Plato remarks (<em>Theaetetus<\/em> 155) and Aristotle repeats (<em>Metaphysics<\/em> 982b10),&#0160; has its origin in wonder or&#0160;perplexity.&#0160; Fruitful philosophical conversation, rare as it is and must be given the state of humanity, is therefore a consolidation and appreciation of problems and a<em>poriai<\/em>, much more than an attempt to convince one&#39;s interlocutor of something. Herein lies a key difference between philosophy and ideology.<\/font> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E. M. Cioran, Drawn and Quartered, p. 163: Conversation is fruitful only between minds given to consolidating their perplexities. A brilliant aphorism. Philosophy, as Plato remarks (Theaetetus 155) and Aristotle repeats (Metaphysics 982b10),&#0160; has its origin in wonder or&#0160;perplexity.&#0160; Fruitful philosophical conversation, rare as it is and must be given the state of humanity, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/12\/fruitful-conversation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fruitful Conversation&#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-11468","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\/11468","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=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}