{"id":3371,"date":"2020-02-01T04:56:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T04:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/01\/joy-and-sadness\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T04:56:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T04:56:22","slug":"joy-and-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/01\/joy-and-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysical Joy and Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">There is a rare form of joy that some of us have experienced, a joy that suggests that at the back of this life is something marvellous and that one day this life may open out onto it.&#0160; It goes together with a kind of sadness, call it metaphysical nostalgia, a sort of longing for a lost homeland, so far back in time that it is outside of time. This is the joy that C. S. Lewis describes in <em>Surprised by Joy<\/em>, and that Nietzsche may have had in mind when he had his Zarathustra exclaim, &quot;All joy wants eternity, deep, deep eternity!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a rare form of joy that some of us have experienced, a joy that suggests that at the back of this life is something marvellous and that one day this life may open out onto it.&#0160; It goes together with a kind of sadness, call it metaphysical nostalgia, a sort of longing for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/01\/joy-and-sadness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Metaphysical Joy and Sadness&#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":[159,38,307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotions","category-heaven-and-hell","category-unseen-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","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=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}