{"id":1905,"date":"2022-08-25T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/25\/wife-and-life-truth-and-practice\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T12:30:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:30:55","slug":"wife-and-life-truth-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/25\/wife-and-life-truth-and-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife and Life, Truth and Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife is easy-going, tolerant, forgiving, good-hearted, and unselfish<\/em>. Hungry, she bought herself a Costco hot dog and then, without my asking,  gave me the lion's share,* concerned that I<\/strong> was hungry! I chose well in matters marital. <\/span><\/p>\n

Human nature leaves a lot to be desired. And yet there is goodness and nobility in some people. The world is ugly, but there is also beauty in it. Life can seem meaningless, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," and yet it also at times appears under the aspect of ultimate Sense and Rightness.<\/span><\/p>\n

You will have to decide which of these seemings to live by. Try both and see which is more conducive to happiness. The one that makes you happier has a solid claim on being the truer. That the truth should in the end thwart us strikes me as implausible.  But the question cannot be resolved theoretically. You resolve it by living, thoughtful<\/em> living, each for himself and by himself. <\/span><\/p>\n

Titans once bestrode Harvard Yard.** Josiah Royce was one, William James the other. The latter held<\/a> that truth is "the good in the way of belief." I commend that thought to your delectation, examination, and practical implementation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"James<\/a>
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*Time was, when the lion's share of something was the whole of it. Despite my linguistic conservatism, I have acquiesced in the latter-day usage according to which the lion's share of something is most of it. If lions could speak, they would protest the semantic dilution.<\/span><\/p>\n

**Pygmies now rule.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife is easy-going, tolerant, forgiving, good-hearted, and unselfish. Hungry, she bought herself a Costco hot dog and then, without my asking,  gave me the lion's share,* concerned that I was hungry! I chose well in matters marital.  Human nature leaves a lot to be desired. And yet there is goodness and nobility in some … Continue reading “Wife and Life, Truth and Practice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,39,310,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-human-predicament","category-james","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}