{"id":2873,"date":"2020-10-10T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T16:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/10\/in-a-philosophical-discussion\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T16:55:19","slug":"in-a-philosophical-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/10\/in-a-philosophical-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Philosophical Discussion . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">. . . three&#39;s a crowd and four&#39;s a cross-conversation.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">One-on-one, back-and-forth, defining and refining, pursuing the point, focusing like a laser, driven by <em>eros<\/em> for truth but free of <em>polemos<\/em> under the aegis of <em>philia<\/em>.&#0160; But also under the aegis of&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And with no illusions about achieving agreement. An attainable goal here below is clarity about differences. &quot;I will teach you differences.&quot; (Shakespeare, <em>King Lear<\/em>, Wittgenstein.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . three&#39;s a crowd and four&#39;s a cross-conversation.&#0160; One-on-one, back-and-forth, defining and refining, pursuing the point, focusing like a laser, driven by eros for truth but free of polemos under the aegis of philia.&#0160; But also under the aegis of&#0160; Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. And with no illusions about achieving agreement. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/10\/in-a-philosophical-discussion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In a Philosophical Discussion . . .&#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":[69,290,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-life-of-the-mind","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","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=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}