{"id":4637,"date":"2018-04-02T06:05:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T06:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/the-afterlife-of-habit-upon-the-death-of-desire-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T06:05:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T06:05:20","slug":"the-afterlife-of-habit-upon-the-death-of-desire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/the-afterlife-of-habit-upon-the-death-of-desire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Afterlife of Habit Upon the Death of Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Desire leads to the gratification of desire, which in turn leads to the repetition of the gratification.&#0160; Repeated gratification in turn leads to the formation of an intensely pleasurable habit, one that persists even after the desire wanes and&#0160; disappears, the very desire without whose gratification the&#0160; habit wouldn&#39;t exist in the first place.&#0160; Memories of pleasure conspire in the maintenance of habit.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The ancient rake, exhausted and infirm, is not up for another round of debauchery, but the memories haunt him, of pleasures past.&#0160; The memories keep alive the habit after the desire has fled the decrepit body that refuses to serve any longer as an engine of pleasure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And that puts me in mind of Schopenhauer&#39;s advice.&#0160; &quot;Abandon your vices before they abandon you.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desire leads to the gratification of desire, which in turn leads to the repetition of the gratification.&#0160; Repeated gratification in turn leads to the formation of an intensely pleasurable habit, one that persists even after the desire wanes and&#0160; disappears, the very desire without whose gratification the&#0160; habit wouldn&#39;t exist in the first place.&#0160; Memories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/the-afterlife-of-habit-upon-the-death-of-desire-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Afterlife of Habit Upon the Death of Desire&#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":[387,39,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desire","category-human-predicament","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","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=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}