{"id":1986,"date":"2022-06-20T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/on-thinking-for-oneself\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:42:44","slug":"on-thinking-for-oneself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/on-thinking-for-oneself\/","title":{"rendered":"On Thinking for Oneself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You must think for yourself while never forgetting that the wild and troubling and contention-stoking diversity of opinions abroad in the world is due to people thinking for themselves. The herd animal may be stampeded into a slot canyon where he drowns; the maverick may end up in the same place and meet the same fate on his own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If only there were an utterly reliable teaching authority available to us here and now. Some say there is. See my longish entry, <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2019\/08\/liccione-on-private-judgment.html\">Michael Liccione on Private and Collective Judgment<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must think for yourself while never forgetting that the wild and troubling and contention-stoking diversity of opinions abroad in the world is due to people thinking for themselves. The herd animal may be stampeded into a slot canyon where he drowns; the maverick may end up in the same place and meet the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/on-thinking-for-oneself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Thinking for Oneself&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","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=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}