{"id":12888,"date":"2008-12-18T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/advice-for-contemporary-french-philosophers\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T14:58:24","slug":"advice-for-contemporary-french-philosophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/advice-for-contemporary-french-philosophers\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for Contemporary French Philosophers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstinpost\">Joseph Joubert, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/shop\/product?usca_p=t&amp;product_id=4559\">The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert<\/a>, p. 26:<\/p>\n<p class=\"firstinpost\"><strong>When a thought gives birth to obscurity, it must be rejected, renounced, abandoned.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Would that contemporary French scribblers would heed this rule penned by a Frenchman in 1796. But they may not be capable of heeding it since<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clarity of mind is not given in all centuries. (28)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, p. 26: When a thought gives birth to obscurity, it must be rejected, renounced, abandoned. Would that contemporary French scribblers would heed this rule penned by a Frenchman in 1796. But they may not be capable of heeding it since Clarity of mind is not given in all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/advice-for-contemporary-french-philosophers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advice for Contemporary French Philosophers&#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":[181,771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-joubert-joseph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888","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=12888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}