{"id":7280,"date":"2015-03-27T06:31:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/27\/thomas-merton-on-platos-phaedo\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T06:31:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T06:31:57","slug":"thomas-merton-on-platos-phaedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/27\/thomas-merton-on-platos-phaedo\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Merton on Plato&#8217;s <i>Phaedo<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Thomas Merton, <em>Journals<\/em>, vol. 4, p. 57 (10 October 1960):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The superb moral and positive beauty of the <em>Phaedo<\/em>.&#0160; One does not have to agree with Plato, but one must hear him.&#0160; Not to listen to such a voice is unpardonable, it is like not listening to conscience or nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Absolutely right.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Merton, Journals, vol. 4, p. 57 (10 October 1960): The superb moral and positive beauty of the Phaedo.&#0160; One does not have to agree with Plato, but one must hear him.&#0160; Not to listen to such a voice is unpardonable, it is like not listening to conscience or nature. Absolutely right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merton-thomas","category-plato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","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=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}