{"id":6980,"date":"2015-09-19T06:49:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T06:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/why-write-2\/"},"modified":"2015-09-19T06:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T06:49:29","slug":"why-write-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/why-write-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong> Why Do I Write?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I write to know my own mind, to actualize my own mind, and to attract a few like-minded and contrary-minded people.&#0160; The like-minded lend support, and the contrary-minded \u2013 assuming that their criticisms are rationally based \u2013 allow me to test my ideas.&#0160; Dialectic is to the philosopher what experiment is to the scientist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong> Why Do I Blog?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If you are going to write at all, why not publish?&#0160; Why hide your light under a bushel?&#0160; To publish is to make public, and the beauty of blogging is that no editor stands between the blogger and his audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong> Writing and Self-Expression<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Good writing is not any sort of petty self-expression, but an expression of the engagement of mind with world whereby the little <em>logos<\/em> of the individual seeks to adjust itself to the world-<em>Logos<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Related:&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/10\/copy-editor-make-me-out-to-be-a-disease.html\" target=\"_self\">Copy Editor Makes Me Out to be a Disease<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Do I Write? I write to know my own mind, to actualize my own mind, and to attract a few like-minded and contrary-minded people.&#0160; The like-minded lend support, and the contrary-minded \u2013 assuming that their criticisms are rationally based \u2013 allow me to test my ideas.&#0160; Dialectic is to the philosopher what experiment is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/why-write-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Write?&#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":[109,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-life-of-the-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980","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=6980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}