{"id":1088,"date":"2023-12-16T05:54:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/16\/political-parsimony\/"},"modified":"2023-12-16T05:54:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T05:54:41","slug":"political-parsimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/16\/political-parsimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Parsimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Do not multiply <em>enemies<\/em> beyond necessity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">William of Ockham: <em>Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">William of Alhambra: <em>Inimici non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Enemies are worse than friends are good. The enmity of the enemy is more to be feared than the friendship of the friend is to be desired.&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">But show me a man with no enemies, and I&#39;ll show you a man with no character. We of the Coalition of the Sane and the Reasonable are distinguished by our enemies, in two senses of &#39;distinguish&#39;:&#0160; we are set <em>apart<\/em> from them and we are set <em>above<\/em> them.&#0160; A man is judged by the nature of his enemies \u2014 and by the nature of his friends.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not multiply enemies beyond necessity. William of Ockham: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. William of Alhambra: Inimici non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Enemies are worse than friends are good. The enmity of the enemy is more to be feared than the friendship of the friend is to be desired.&#0160;But show me a man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/16\/political-parsimony\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Parsimony&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,285,43,312,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-friendship","category-political-language","category-political-pessimism","category-political-wit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","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=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}