{"id":7254,"date":"2015-04-07T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/07\/philosophy-as-high-ground\/"},"modified":"2015-04-07T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T05:15:08","slug":"philosophy-as-high-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/07\/philosophy-as-high-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy as High Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Philosophy is the high ground from which to survey the dismal and contentious scene, the <em>bellum omnium contra omnes<\/em>.&#0160; One retreats to the high ground for three reasons.&#0160; To contemplate and understand the passing scene, to escape from it, and to be in a position to transcend toward what is neither passing nor a scene.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy is the high ground from which to survey the dismal and contentious scene, the bellum omnium contra omnes.&#0160; One retreats to the high ground for three reasons.&#0160; To contemplate and understand the passing scene, to escape from it, and to be in a position to transcend toward what is neither passing nor a scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254","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=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}