{"id":2288,"date":"2011-09-28T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2011-09-28T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:49:24","slug":"lonergan-on-the-desire-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2011\/09\/28\/lonergan-on-the-desire-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonergan on the Desire to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Deep within us all, emergent when the noise of other appetites is stilled, there is a drive to know, to understand, to see why, to discover the reason, to find the cause, to explain.\u00a0 Just what is wanted, has many names.\u00a0 In what precisely it consists, is a matter of dispute.\u00a0 But the fact of inquiry is beyond all doubt.\u00a0 It can absorb a man.\u00a0 It can keep him for hours, day after day, year after year, in the narrow prison of his study or laboratory.\u00a0 It can send him on dangerous voyages of exploration.\u00a0 It can withdraw him from other interests, other pursuits, other pleasures, other achievements.\u00a0 It can fill his waking thoughts, hide him from the world of ordinary affairs, invade the very fabric of his dreams.\u00a0 It can demand endless sacrifices that are made without regret though there is only the hope, never a certain promise, of success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Bernard Lonergan, Insight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep within us all, emergent when the noise of other appetites is stilled, there is a drive to know, to understand, to see why, to discover the reason, to find the cause, to explain.\u00a0 Just what is wanted, has many names.\u00a0 In what precisely it consists, is a matter of dispute.\u00a0 But the fact of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epistemology","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-AU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}