{"id":2718,"date":"2021-02-11T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/11\/attributed-to-robert-frost\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:15:10","slug":"attributed-to-robert-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/11\/attributed-to-robert-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Attributed to Robert Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"

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"A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel\u201d is usually credited to American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). Frost used the quote in January 1961 (discussing John F. Kennedy, who Frost thought was not this type of liberal) and Frost used it again in January 1962. A popular form of the quotation is: \u201cA liberal is someone who won\u2019t take his own side in a fight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966) wrote this in his book What Man Can Make of Man<\/em> (1942): \u201cHe lends himself to the gibe that he is \u2018so very liberal, that he cannot bring himself to take his own side in a quarrel.\u2019\u201d It is not known where Hocking got the phrase, or if Frost (who was an avid reader) was borrowing from another source.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One can be hobbled by one's virtues. There is something noble about being fair-minded, objective, and considerative of all points of view. It is the way of the philosopher, the lover of objective truth, "the spectator of all time and existence" in a stirring line from Plato's Republic<\/em>. But before a man is a philosopher, he is a man of flesh and blood, brutally embedded in a brutal world in which he must stand his ground and battle his enemies. He must not allow his noble viewership of life's parade to make impossible  his marching in it.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here: "A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel\u201d is usually credited to American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). Frost used the quote in January 1961 (discussing John F. Kennedy, who Frost thought was not this type of liberal) and Frost used it again in January 1962. A popular … Continue reading “Attributed to Robert Frost”<\/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":[39,40,384,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-literary-matters","category-political-aporetics","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","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=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}