{"id":13380,"date":"2025-10-04T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13380"},"modified":"2025-10-04T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:30:28","slug":"ought-philosophers-float-above-the-fray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/ought-philosophers-float-above-the-fray\/","title":{"rendered":"OUGHT PHILOSOPHERS  FLOAT ABOVE THE FRAY?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ought we avoid the toxicity of polarization by a noncommittal floating above the fray that does not commit to one side or the other? I think not. Politics is war. You must take a side. You can&#8217;t play the philosopher on the battlefield. A warrior at war cannot be &#8220;a spectator of all time and existence,&#8221; as noble as such spectatorship is.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A warrior who is fully human, however, will know when to put aside his weapons and take up his pen. He will know that in the end &#8220;The pen is mightier than the sword.&#8221; But only in the end. Now you are in the field. If you don&#8217;t survive the fight, there will be no life left for &#8216;penmanship.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ought we avoid the toxicity of polarization by a noncommittal floating above the fray that does not commit to one side or the other? I think not. Politics is war. You must take a side. You can&#8217;t play the philosopher on the battlefield. A warrior at war cannot be &#8220;a spectator of all time and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/ought-philosophers-float-above-the-fray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OUGHT PHILOSOPHERS  FLOAT ABOVE THE FRAY?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380","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=13380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}