{"id":3498,"date":"2019-11-11T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/night-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T10:07:52","slug":"night-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/night-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Night thoughts are the specters that haunt the philosopher in the twilight zone between sleeping and waking. Recent examples:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Man is noble in that he thinks the thought and raises the question of the Absolute while questioning the question.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Man is noble in that he is wretched. Only a spiritual animal can be wretched.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Man is spirit in that he is capable of self-degradation.&#0160; His nobility manifests itself in his self-abasement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Man is flesh and yet free.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Man is a question he poses to himself.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night thoughts are the specters that haunt the philosopher in the twilight zone between sleeping and waking. Recent examples: Man is noble in that he thinks the thought and raises the question of the Absolute while questioning the question. Man is noble in that he is wretched. Only a spiritual animal can be wretched. Man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/night-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Night Thoughts&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}