{"id":10793,"date":"2011-04-06T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/06\/hocking-on-the-value-of-the-individual\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T13:37:24","slug":"hocking-on-the-value-of-the-individual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/06\/hocking-on-the-value-of-the-individual\/","title":{"rendered":"Hocking on the Value of the Individual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstinpost\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookrags.com\/biography\/william-ernest-hocking\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c014e606dfb8b970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WilliamErnestHocking\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c014e606dfb8b970c\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c014e606dfb8b970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"WilliamErnestHocking\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookrags.com\/biography\/william-ernest-hocking\/\"> William Ernest Hocking<\/a> (1873-1966) had his day in the philosophical sun, but is no longer much read \u2013 except perhaps by those contrarians who take being unread by contemporaries as a possible mark of distinction. Recently I came across this magnificent passage:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Life itself is individual, and the most significant things in the world \u2013 perhaps in the end the only significant things \u2013 are individual souls. Each one of these must work its own way to salvation, win its own experience, suffer from its own mistakes: &quot;through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui,&quot; yes, and through crime and retribution, &quot;what you are picks its way.&quot; Any rule which by running human conduct into approved grooves saves men from this salutary Odyssey thwarts the first meaning of human life. (&quot;The Philosophical Anarchist&quot; in R. Hoffman, ed. <strong>Anarchism<\/strong>, New York: Lieber-Atherton, 1973, pp. 120-121.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The quotation within this quotation is from the last stanza of Walt Whitman&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/142\/175.html\">&quot;To You&quot;<\/a> from <strong>Leaves of Grass<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966) had his day in the philosophical sun, but is no longer much read \u2013 except perhaps by those contrarians who take being unread by contemporaries as a possible mark of distinction. Recently I came across this magnificent passage: Life itself is individual, and the most significant things in the world \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/06\/hocking-on-the-value-of-the-individual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hocking on the Value of the Individual&#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":[279,413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anarchism","category-mavericks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793","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=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}