{"id":2702,"date":"2021-02-24T17:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/temptation\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:28:56","slug":"temptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/temptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Temptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">A striking one or two sentence formulation taken from a wider context is not an aphorism, strictly speaking.&#0160; But I&#39;m in a loose and liberal mood.&#0160; So I present for your consideration and delectation the following sentence from&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Ludwig_Landsberg\" target=\"_self\">Paul Ludwig Landsberg<\/a>&#0160;(1901-1944).&#0160; It is from his essay &quot;The Moral Problem of Suicide,&quot; translated from the French by Cynthia Rowland and bound together with &quot;The Experience of Death&quot; in a volume entitled&#0160;<em>The Experience of Death<\/em>&#0160;(Arno Press, New York, 1977).&#0160; The sentence occurs on p. 69.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Temptation is an experience of the difference between the vertigo of power and the decision of duty.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0263e9928133200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Landsberg  Paul Ludwig 1901-1944\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0263e9928133200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0263e9928133200b-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Landsberg  Paul Ludwig 1901-1944\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A striking one or two sentence formulation taken from a wider context is not an aphorism, strictly speaking.&#0160; But I&#39;m in a loose and liberal mood.&#0160; So I present for your consideration and delectation the following sentence from&#0160;Paul Ludwig Landsberg&#0160;(1901-1944).&#0160; It is from his essay &quot;The Moral Problem of Suicide,&quot; translated from the French by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/temptation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Temptation&#8221;<\/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":[472,429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landsberg-paul-ludwig","category-temptation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","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=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}