{"id":5373,"date":"2017-08-02T12:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T12:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/02\/wonder-and-nonentity\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T12:38:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T12:38:03","slug":"wonder-and-nonentity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/02\/wonder-and-nonentity\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder and Nonentity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><em> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c911e838970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MacDonald\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c911e838970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c911e838970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"MacDonald\" \/><\/a>George MacDonald: An Anthology<\/em>, ed. C. S. Lewis, Macmillan 1960, #169:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">We must not wonder things away into nonentity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">An occupational hazard of a certain sort of philosopher. My haiku commentary on MacDonald&#39;s epigram:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Beginning in wonder<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Wisdom runs the risk<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Of ending in <em>das Nichts<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George MacDonald: An Anthology, ed. C. S. Lewis, Macmillan 1960, #169: We must not wonder things away into nonentity. An occupational hazard of a certain sort of philosopher. My haiku commentary on MacDonald&#39;s epigram: Beginning in wonderWisdom runs the riskOf ending in das Nichts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,218,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-nothingness","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373","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=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}