{"id":8883,"date":"2013-04-03T06:07:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/03\/be-here-now-2\/"},"modified":"2013-04-03T06:07:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:07:42","slug":"be-here-now-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/03\/be-here-now-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Here Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;But how could I fail to be?&quot;&#0160; By not <em>minding<\/em> your being here now.&#0160; The rocks on the trail are here now but they cannot attend to their being here now.&#0160; They can&#39;t appreciate or appropriate or affirm their being here now.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">As the existentialists rightly pointed out, to be for a human being is to be in a special mode: to be minding, if you will.&#0160; In Heideggerian jargon, to be for a human&#0160;being is to be the <em>Da<\/em> of <em>Sein<\/em>; it is to be the <em>Lichtung<\/em> in which the rest of what is is <em>gelichtet<\/em> and made manifest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;But how could I fail to be?&quot;&#0160; By not minding your being here now.&#0160; The rocks on the trail are here now but they cannot attend to their being here now.&#0160; They can&#39;t appreciate or appropriate or affirm their being here now.&#0160; As the existentialists rightly pointed out, to be for a human being is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/03\/be-here-now-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be Here Now&#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":[283,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heidegger","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","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=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}