{"id":7661,"date":"2014-10-07T05:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T05:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/07\/the-need-for-outside-help\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T05:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T05:54:16","slug":"the-need-for-outside-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/07\/the-need-for-outside-help\/","title":{"rendered":"The Need for Outside Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

A human life is too short for the acquisition by oneself of the wisdom needed to live it well — or to end it well.  And the same goes for the appropriation of the hard-won wisdom of one's predecessors: the brevity of life militates against the needed appropriation as much as against the needed acquisition.  So wisdom must come from outside the human-all-too-human if it is to come at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Addendum <\/em>.  Dave Bagwill submits the following pertinent quotation from George MacDonald<\/a>'s Diary of an Old Soul<\/em> for July 15th:<\/span> <\/p>\n

Who sets himself not sternly to be good,\nIs but a fool, who judgment of true things\nHas none, however oft the claim renewed.\nAnd he who thinks, in his great plenitude,\nTo right himself, and set his spirit free,\nWithout the might of higher communings,\nIs foolish also--save he willed himself to be.<\/tt><\/pre>\n
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A human life is too short for the acquisition by oneself of the wisdom needed to live it well — or to end it well.  And the same goes for the appropriation of the hard-won wisdom of one's predecessors: the brevity of life militates against the needed appropriation as much as against the needed acquisition.  … Continue reading “The Need for Outside Help”<\/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":[69,39,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","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=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}