{"id":11732,"date":"2010-03-30T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/30\/on-reading-philosophers-for-the-beauty-of-their-prose\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T07:50:30","slug":"on-reading-philosophers-for-the-beauty-of-their-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/30\/on-reading-philosophers-for-the-beauty-of-their-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"On Reading Philosophers For the Beauty of Their Prose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><font face=\"Georgia\">To read a philosopher for the beauty of his prose alone is like ordering a delicacy in a world-class restaurant for its wonderful aroma and artful presentation &#8212; but then not eating it.<\/p>\n<p>I had that thought&#0160;one morning while re-reading for the fifth time William James&#39; magisterial essay, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophy.uncc.edu\/mleldrid\/American\/mp&amp;ml.htm\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life.<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> So rich in thought, and yet so distracting in its beauty the prose in which the thoughts are couched. James and a few other philosophers are great writers &#8212; Schopenhauer and Santayana come to mind &#8212; but the thought&#39;s the thing.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To read a philosopher for the beauty of his prose alone is like ordering a delicacy in a world-class restaurant for its wonderful aroma and artful presentation &#8212; but then not eating it. I had that thought&#0160;one morning while re-reading for the fifth time William James&#39; magisterial essay, The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/30\/on-reading-philosophers-for-the-beauty-of-their-prose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Reading Philosophers For the Beauty of Their Prose&#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":[69,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11732","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=11732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}