{"id":10586,"date":"2011-06-30T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/30\/the-ascesis-of-the-lower-2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T12:20:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:20:57","slug":"the-ascesis-of-the-lower-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/30\/the-ascesis-of-the-lower-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ascesis of the Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It is useful to suppose oneself composed of a lower and a higher self.&#0160; Much good comes from denying the former, good that accrues to the latter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Companion post: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/11\/william-james-on-self-denial.html\" target=\"_self\">William James on Self-Denial<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is useful to suppose oneself composed of a lower and a higher self.&#0160; Much good comes from denying the former, good that accrues to the latter. Companion post: William James on Self-Denial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-exercises","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586","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=10586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}