{"id":3273,"date":"2020-03-20T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/from-mctaggart-to-rome\/"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:57:33","slug":"from-mctaggart-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/from-mctaggart-to-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"From McTaggart to Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Peter Geach, <strong>Truth and Hope<\/strong>, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, p. 9:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Soaking myself in McTaggart, I imbibed a desire for Heaven and eternal life, which of course I had not to abandon on becoming Catholic; and meanwhile I was preserved from giving my heart with total devotion to some less worthy end, as I saw many contemporaries doing.&#0160; Even as regards the relation of time and eternity I had no need to find McTaggart wholly mistaken.&#0160; God&#39;s life, the life of the Blessed Trinity, really is the sort of Boethian eternity that McTaggart ascribed to all persons; and we have the great and precious promise that, in a way we cannot now begin to understand, we shall transcend all the delusion and misery and wickedness of this life and become sharers in that eternal life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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\/6a010535ce1cf6970c025d9b3eb491200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geach on Reasoning\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c025d9b3eb491200c image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c025d9b3eb491200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Geach on Reasoning\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Geach, Truth and Hope, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, p. 9: Soaking myself in McTaggart, I imbibed a desire for Heaven and eternal life, which of course I had not to abandon on becoming Catholic; and meanwhile I was preserved from giving my heart with total devotion to some less worthy end, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/from-mctaggart-to-rome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From McTaggart to Rome&#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":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","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=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}