{"id":142,"date":"2009-05-02T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/anagnorisis-and-peripeteia\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T21:42:43","slug":"anagnorisis-and-peripeteia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/anagnorisis-and-peripeteia\/","title":{"rendered":"Anagnorisis and Peripeteia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs gave a talk at TED. In it, he mentions two words that I&#8217;ve never heard before, but I do like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/anagnorisis\">anagnorisis\u00a0 <\/a>&#8211; basically means &#8220;discovery&#8221;. Aristotle defined anagnorisis as &#8220;a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/peripeteia\">peripeteia<\/a> &#8211; a drastic and unexpected change of fortune. Perepity is a different form of the same word.<\/p>\n<p>Dirty Jobs is awesome, and Rowe is a big reason. He&#8217;s well-educated, and spends his time going out and doing really hard and nasty work.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video of the TED talk.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IRVdiHu1VCc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IRVdiHu1VCc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs gave a talk at TED. In it, he mentions two words that I&#8217;ve never heard before, but I do like. anagnorisis\u00a0 &#8211; basically means &#8220;discovery&#8221;. Aristotle defined anagnorisis as &#8220;a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/anagnorisis-and-peripeteia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anagnorisis and Peripeteia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[452,456,455,453,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}