{"id":10209,"date":"2011-11-07T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/07\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-arrogant-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-07T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T08:43:09","slug":"how-did-we-get-to-be-so-arrogant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/07\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-arrogant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did We Get to be so Arrogant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Recalling our miserably indigent origin in the the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In a line often (mis)attributed to Augustine, but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Bernard_of_Clairvaux\" target=\"_self\">apparently<\/a> from Bernard of Clairvaux, <em>Inter faeces et urinam nascimur<\/em>: &quot;We are born between feces and urine.&quot;&#0160; So inauspicious a beginning for so proud a strut upon life&#39;s stage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recalling our miserably indigent origin in the the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important? In a line often (mis)attributed to Augustine, but apparently from Bernard of Clairvaux, Inter faeces et urinam nascimur: &quot;We are born between feces and urine.&quot;&#0160; So inauspicious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/07\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-arrogant-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Did We Get to be so Arrogant?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209","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=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}