{"id":3206,"date":"2020-04-08T13:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/08\/husserl-knight-of-reason\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:14:44","slug":"husserl-knight-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/08\/husserl-knight-of-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Husserl, Knight of Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/husserl\/\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Edmund Husserl<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> was born on this date in 1859. How do we honor a philosopher? By re-enacting his thoughts, sympathetically, yet critically. <a href=\"https:\/\/quotes.yourdictionary.com\/author\/quote\/587674\">Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Ich muss meinen Weg gehen so sicher, so fest entschlossen und so ernst wie Duerers Ritter, Tod und Teufel.<\/em>&#0160; &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">&quot;I must go my way as surely, as seriously, and as resolutely as the knight in Duerer&#39;s <em>Knight, Death, and Devil<\/em>.&quot; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Edmund Husserl,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2104711?seq=1\">Pers\u00f6nliche Aufzeichnungen<\/a><\/span>,&#0160;<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">tr. <em>MavPhil<\/em>&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Note the castle on the hill, the hour glass in the devil&#39;s hand, the serpents entwined in his headpiece, and the human skull on the road.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Time is running out, death awaits, and a mighty task wants completion. An Adversary stands in the way with temptations galore.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Husserl, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, was a serious man. I have no time for the unserious. Something is at stake in life, difficult as it is to say what it is.&#0160; Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/02\/what-i-like-about-wittgenstein.html\">What I Like About Wittgenstein<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">My&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/husserl\/\">Husserl category<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a51e95ae200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ritter  Tod  und Teufel\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a51e95ae200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a51e95ae200b-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Ritter  Tod  und Teufel\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund Husserl was born on this date in 1859. How do we honor a philosopher? By re-enacting his thoughts, sympathetically, yet critically. Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas. Ich muss meinen Weg gehen so sicher, so fest entschlossen und so ernst wie Duerers Ritter, Tod und Teufel.&#0160; &#0160; &quot;I must go my way as surely, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/08\/husserl-knight-of-reason\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Husserl, Knight of Reason&#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":[454,67,584,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-philosophy","category-husserl","category-philosophers-calendar","category-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","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=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}