{"id":3783,"date":"2019-05-16T03:31:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T03:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/they-have-no-views\/"},"modified":"2019-05-16T03:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T03:31:52","slug":"they-have-no-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/they-have-no-views\/","title":{"rendered":"They Have No Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">My cats eat, sleep, play, and sleep some more. They have no views. But the value of being <em>adoxastos<\/em> is lost on them.&#0160; I do not envy them.&#0160; I am glad that I am a man.&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Man alone among the animals is more than an animal.&#0160; Man&#39;s distinction consists both in his having views and in his ability to examine them like Socrates, to suspend them like the Pyrrhonian skeptic and to transcend them like the mystic.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Man is also distinguished by his wretchedness. No mere animal, strictly speaking, is <em>wretched<\/em>.&#0160; Animal suffering never gets the length of wretchedness. Man is wretched because he is great. Therein lies the Pascalian paradox of the human predicament.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cats eat, sleep, play, and sleep some more. They have no views. But the value of being adoxastos is lost on them.&#0160; I do not envy them.&#0160; I am glad that I am a man.&#0160;Man alone among the animals is more than an animal.&#0160; Man&#39;s distinction consists both in his having views and in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/they-have-no-views\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Have No Views&#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":[69,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","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=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}