{"id":126,"date":"2025-06-09T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/morality-public-and-private-on-not-confusing-them\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:13:49","slug":"morality-public-and-private-on-not-confusing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/morality-public-and-private-on-not-confusing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Morality Public and Private: On not Confusing Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">With a little help from Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hannah Arendt. Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/morality-private-and-public?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">By the way, I learned that Arendt had ten books by Carl Schmitt in her library. We will have to look into their relationship. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Is that a cigarette holder she&#39;s using?&#0160; A Randian touch. It would not be fair to call Ayn Rand a hack, but she comes close, and is nowhere near the level of Arendt.&#0160; A is A!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Portrait of German-born American political theorist and author Hannah Arendt with a cigarette in her hand, 1949.\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.search.brave.com\/jCtQ4CTPF6cFBPxgwyQsvw2UekvImFFw00HsD97hK3o\/rs:fit:500:0:0:0\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRp\/YS5nZXR0eWltYWdl\/cy5jb20vaWQvMTM1\/MzE0NzA3L3Bob3Rv\/L3BvcnRyYWl0LW9m\/LWdlcm1hbi1ib3Ju\/LWFtZXJpY2FuLXBv\/bGl0aWNhbC10aGVv\/cmlzdC1hbmQtYXV0\/aG9yLWhhbm5haC1h\/cmVuZHQtd2l0aC1h\/LWNpZ2FyZXR0ZS5q\/cGc_cz02MTJ4NjEy\/Jnc9MCZrPTIwJmM9\/Vks2a2FjcWJsdU0t\/MF94WS1tVlVwd0k1\/WkJ1QUQ0R2xFeGhp\/QjdHNi1Caz0\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a little help from Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hannah Arendt. Substack latest. By the way, I learned that Arendt had ten books by Carl Schmitt in her library. We will have to look into their relationship. Is that a cigarette holder she&#39;s using?&#0160; A Randian touch. It would not be fair to call Ayn Rand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/morality-public-and-private-on-not-confusing-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morality Public and Private: On not Confusing Them&#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":[151,22,152,153,48,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arendt-hannah","category-aristotle","category-machiavelli","category-morality-and-legality","category-social-and-political-philosophy","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}