{"id":7178,"date":"2015-05-08T11:54:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T11:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/hard-childhood-strong-man\/"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T11:54:55","slug":"hard-childhood-strong-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/hard-childhood-strong-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Childhood, Strong Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Emmanuel Lasker, <em>Die Philosophie des Unvollendbar<\/em>, 1919, p. x:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Aber eine harte Kindheit macht einen starken Mann.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">But a hard childhood makes a strong man.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><br \/><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb082b3354970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emmanuel Lasker\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb082b3354970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb082b3354970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Emmanuel Lasker\" \/><\/a>In the &#39;80s I read a chunk of Lasker&#39;s <em>Philosophy of the Incompletable<\/em> and concluded that the grandmaster of chess was not one of philosophy. But I didn&#39;t read much of it and it was a long time ago. &#0160;Now available in a paperback reprint via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Die-philosophie-unvollendbar-German-Edition\/dp\/B009XUCZIS\" target=\"_self\">Amazon.com<\/a>. &#0160;I am tempted to take another look.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Too many in philosophy and other fields confine themselves to the horizon of the contemporary. Explore, get lost, discover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">A marvellous sublunary trinity: chess, philosophy, and a cigar.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Lasker, Die Philosophie des Unvollendbar, 1919, p. x: Aber eine harte Kindheit macht einen starken Mann. But a hard childhood makes a strong man. In the &#39;80s I read a chunk of Lasker&#39;s Philosophy of the Incompletable and concluded that the grandmaster of chess was not one of philosophy. But I didn&#39;t read much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/hard-childhood-strong-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hard Childhood, Strong Man&#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":[112,181,169,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-chess","category-obscure-philosophers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178","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=7178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}