{"id":8886,"date":"2013-04-02T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/02\/courage-and-content\/"},"modified":"2013-04-02T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:14:34","slug":"courage-and-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/02\/courage-and-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage and Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are courageous souls who will say publically what others think but are afraid to say.  True.  But the courageousness of the saying does not underwrite the truth of what is said.  Courage does not validate content.<\/span><\/p>\n

Muhammad Atta and the 9\/11 terrorists had the courage of their false and murderous convictions.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a corollary, passion is not probative.  The passion with which a proposition is propounded is no proof of it.  It is scant praise of a person, and perhaps no praise at all, to say, as is often nowadays said, that so-and-so is passionate about his beliefs.  So what?  Hitler was passionate.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have need of dispassion these days, not passion. William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming<\/a>, first stanza:<\/span><\/p>\n

Turning and turning in the widening gyre<\/span>
The falcon cannot hear the
\nfalconer;<\/span>
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/span>
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<\/span>
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<\/span>
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<\/span>
The best lack all conviction, while the worst<\/span>
Are full of passionate intensity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are courageous souls who will say publically what others think but are afraid to say.  True.  But the courageousness of the saying does not underwrite the truth of what is said.  Courage does not validate content. Muhammad Atta and the 9\/11 terrorists had the courage of their false and murderous convictions. As a corollary, … Continue reading “Courage and Content”<\/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":[372,159,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-emotions","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886","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=8886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}