{"id":2574,"date":"2021-05-26T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/the-noble-and-the-base\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:31:07","slug":"the-noble-and-the-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/the-noble-and-the-base\/","title":{"rendered":"The Noble and the Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">If a noble man becomes aware of my moral defects, he is saddened, disappointed, disillusioned perhaps.&#0160; But the base man reacts differently: he is gleeful, pleased, reassured. &quot;So he isn&#39;t better than me after all! Good!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The noble seek those who are above them&#0160;so that&#0160;they can become like them.&#0160; The base&#0160;deny that anyone could be above them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a noble man becomes aware of my moral defects, he is saddened, disappointed, disillusioned perhaps.&#0160; But the base man reacts differently: he is gleeful, pleased, reassured. &quot;So he isn&#39;t better than me after all! Good!&quot; The noble seek those who are above them&#0160;so that&#0160;they can become like them.&#0160; The base&#0160;deny that anyone could be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/the-noble-and-the-base\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Noble and the Base&#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":[69,39,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}