{"id":3278,"date":"2020-03-18T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T08:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/18\/a-limit-to-self-reliance\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T08:06:23","slug":"a-limit-to-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/18\/a-limit-to-self-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Limit to Self-Reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Among our fellows, and in relation to the government, we ought to be as self-reliant as possible.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">But in matters moral and spiritual we ought freely to confess our exigency&#0160; and ultimate inability to help ourselves.&#0160; Honesty demands it. To appreciate properly the need for outside help, however, one ought first to try to go it alone.&#0160; When the self-therapeutics of Buddhism and Stoicism and cognate systems fail, then one will have a concrete motive for the confession of impotence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The help we need in matters moral and spiritual we cannot provide for ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among our fellows, and in relation to the government, we ought to be as self-reliant as possible.&#0160; But in matters moral and spiritual we ought freely to confess our exigency&#0160; and ultimate inability to help ourselves.&#0160; Honesty demands it. To appreciate properly the need for outside help, however, one ought first to try to go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/18\/a-limit-to-self-reliance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Limit to Self-Reliance&#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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","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=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}