{"id":3806,"date":"2019-05-01T14:25:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/what-is-time\/"},"modified":"2019-05-01T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:25:05","slug":"what-is-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/what-is-time\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Si nemo a me querat, scio, si quarenti explicare velim, nescio.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Augustinus (354-430), Confessiones, lib. XI, cap. 14.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Maximae res, cum parvis quaeruntur, magnos eos solent efficere.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Augustinus, Contra Academicos, 1. 2. 6<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Time is a tangle of the most elusive and difficult topics in philosophy. For a mere mortal to grapple with any of them may be hubris, given the Augustinian predicament: \u201cIf no one asks me, I know [what time is]; if I want to explain it to someone who asks me, I do not know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> But undaunted we proceed under the aegis of the second quotation above: \u201cMatters of the greatest importance, when they are investigated by little men, tend to make those men great.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si nemo a me querat, scio, si quarenti explicare velim, nescio. Augustinus (354-430), Confessiones, lib. XI, cap. 14. Maximae res, cum parvis quaeruntur, magnos eos solent efficere. Augustinus, Contra Academicos, 1. 2. 6 Time is a tangle of the most elusive and difficult topics in philosophy. For a mere mortal to grapple with any of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/what-is-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is Time?&#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":[181,335,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-augustine","category-time-and-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","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=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}