{"id":6797,"date":"2015-12-08T16:57:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/08\/how-will-death-find-us\/"},"modified":"2015-12-08T16:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:57:49","slug":"how-will-death-find-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/08\/how-will-death-find-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will Death Find Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We have it on good authority that death is the muse of philosophy.&#0160;The muse reminds us that our time is short and to be well used.&#0160; We ought to heed the following lines from St. Augustine&#39;s <em>Confessions<\/em>, Book VI, Chapter 11, Ryan trans.:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Let us put away these vain and empty concerns.&#0160; Let us turn ourselves only to a search for truth.&#0160; Life is hard, and death is uncertain.&#0160; It may carry us away suddenly.&#0160; In what state shall we leave this world?&#0160; Where must we learn what we have neglected here?&#0160; Or rather, must we not endure punishment for our negligence?&#0160; What if death itself should cut off and put an end to all care, along with sensation itself?&#0160; This too must be investigated.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>This too must be investigated<\/em>.&#0160; For as Blaise Pascal remarks, &quot;It affects our whole life to know whether the soul is mortal or immortal.&quot;<\/span>&#0160;&#0160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have it on good authority that death is the muse of philosophy.&#0160;The muse reminds us that our time is short and to be well used.&#0160; We ought to heed the following lines from St. Augustine&#39;s Confessions, Book VI, Chapter 11, Ryan trans.: Let us put away these vain and empty concerns.&#0160; Let us turn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/08\/how-will-death-find-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Will Death Find Us?&#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":[335,184,287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augustine","category-death-and-immortality","category-pascal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","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=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}