{"id":6308,"date":"2016-07-01T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/07\/01\/george-wills-moral-narcissism\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:16:01","slug":"george-wills-moral-narcissism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/07\/01\/george-wills-moral-narcissism\/","title":{"rendered":"George Will’s Moral Narcissism"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is moral narcissism? Roger L. Simon<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

What you believe, or claim to believe or say you believe\u2014not what you do or how you act or what the results of your actions may be\u2014defines you as a person and makes you \u201cgood.\u201d It is how your life will be judged by others and by yourself. In 19th-century France, the gastronome Jean Brillat-Savarin told us that \u201cYou are what you eat.\u201d In 21st-century America, almost all of us seem to have concluded that \u201cyou are what you say you are. You are what you proclaim your values to be, irrespective of their consequences.\u201d That<\/em> is moral narcissism.<\/span><\/p>\n

So George Will has proclaimed himself to be free and above the Republican Party — most specifically the Republican Party whose current standard bearer by millions of votes is Donald Trump, a man Will obviously abhors. As the columnist said in his speech, Republicans should \u201cmake sure he loses. Grit their teeth for four years and win the White House.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I understand why Will loathes Trump, but Will is more the quisling than the conservative when he advocates against Trump and therefore for Hillary.  <\/span><\/p>\n

I won't repeat what I said yesterday<\/a> about the folly of putting up with Hillary and her crew for four years and then winning the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is moral narcissism? Roger L. Simon: What you believe, or claim to believe or say you believe\u2014not what you do or how you act or what the results of your actions may be\u2014defines you as a person and makes you \u201cgood.\u201d It is how your life will be judged by others and by yourself. In 19th-century France, the gastronome Jean … Continue reading “George Will’s Moral Narcissism”<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308","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=6308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}