{"id":150,"date":"2025-03-29T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.jcmeister.de\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:52:20","slug":"gaia-sciencia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/?page_id=150","title":{"rendered":"gaya scienza!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Seneca would not have approved of a vita voluptas<\/em>, a “life devoted to pleasure”… To the stoic philosopher an impulsive pursuit of pleasure was animalistic and detestable: the life to be lead had to be devoted to the search for tranquility through virtue and reason.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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So what about that hedonist streak in me? Well…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the nuances of meaning across terms such as “happiness”, “bliss”, “delight”, “pleasure”, “glee” and “joy” – what exactly is it that complements my vita activa<\/em> and vita contemplativa<\/em> to make my life feel whole? I think it is gaudium<\/em>, joy – joy perhaps in the sense of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” which calls on us to celebrate life as a reality shared by all beings. Or maybe also joy in the sense of Nietzsche’s use of the term as an adjective in his book “Fr\u00f6hliche Wissenschaft”, gaya scienza<\/em>*: the lived ‘science’ of the artful, joyous celebration of life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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* Nietzsche and his 19th century contemporaries understood gaya scienza<\/em> not as a label for some new, revolutionary type of scientific practice – it was well known that the term referred to a group of poets established in Toulouse, Provence in the early 14th century. This group had named themselves the Consistori de la Subregaya Companhia del Gai Saber<\/em>; their declared mission was to revive the tradition of the gay, joyful Troubadours that had been disrupted by the 1209-29 crusades. The dogmatism of past, they believed, could be overcome by revitalizing the poetry of the Troubadours that had not yet been overshadowed by Christian dogma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Seneca would not have approved of a vita voluptas, a “life devoted to pleasure”… To the stoic philosopher an impulsive pursuit of pleasure was animalistic and detestable: the life to be lead had to be devoted to the search for tranquility through virtue and reason. So what about that hedonist streak in me? Well… Consider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}