{"id":9446,"date":"2012-08-17T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/17\/the-quietist-on-the-delights-of-escapism-2\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:22:10","slug":"the-quietist-on-the-delights-of-escapism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/17\/the-quietist-on-the-delights-of-escapism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quietist on the Delights of Escapism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There are the undeniable and readily accessible delights of escapism into scholarship, and science, and research and inquiry of all sorts.&#0160; When &#39;reality&#39; becomes too much to bear, what is wrong with retreating into an ivory tower?&#0160; Who can rightfully begrude us our right to peace and quiet and happiness?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You say that there are more pressing concerns than the nature and extent of the influence of Avicenna on Aquinas&#39;<em> De Ente et Essentia<\/em>?&#0160; No doubt.&#0160; But do you really believe that your becoming hot and bothered over these &#39;pressing concerns&#39; will lead to any improvement?&#0160; Are you sure about that?&#0160; And isn&#39;t your political activism your mode of escape from something or other?&#0160; I like peace and quiet; you like &#39;drama&#39; and contention.&#0160; To each his own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Thus spoke the quietist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are the undeniable and readily accessible delights of escapism into scholarship, and science, and research and inquiry of all sorts.&#0160; When &#39;reality&#39; becomes too much to bear, what is wrong with retreating into an ivory tower?&#0160; Who can rightfully begrude us our right to peace and quiet and happiness? You say that there are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/17\/the-quietist-on-the-delights-of-escapism-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Quietist on the Delights of Escapism&#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":[306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","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=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}