{"id":8935,"date":"2013-03-08T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/worldly-success-how-much-is-enough-2\/"},"modified":"2013-03-08T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:17:22","slug":"worldly-success-how-much-is-enough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/worldly-success-how-much-is-enough-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldly Success: How Much is Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You have enough world success if it enables you to advance the project of self-realization on the important fronts including the moral, the intellectual, and the spiritual.&#0160; The <em>vita contemplativa<\/em> cannot be well lived by the grindingly poor, the sick, the politically and socially oppressed, the sorely afflicted and tormented.&#0160; Boethius wrote&#0160;his <em>Consolations of Philosophy<\/em> in prison, but you are not Boethius.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You have too much worldly success when it becomes a snare and a burden and&#0160;a distraction.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We need some social acceptance and human contact, but fame is worse than obscurity.&#0160; Reflect for a moment on the character of those who enjoy fame and the character of those whose fickle regard confers it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We need a modicum of worldly wherewithal to live well, but more is not better. Only the terminally deluded could believe, as the saying goes, that &quot;You can&#39;t be too thin or too rich.&quot;&#0160; You could be anorexic or like unto the New Testament camel&#0160;who couldn&#39;t pass through the eye of a needle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We need health but not hypertrophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We need power, but not the power over others that corrupts but the power over oneself that does not.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have enough world success if it enables you to advance the project of self-realization on the important fronts including the moral, the intellectual, and the spiritual.&#0160; The vita contemplativa cannot be well lived by the grindingly poor, the sick, the politically and socially oppressed, the sorely afflicted and tormented.&#0160; Boethius wrote&#0160;his Consolations of Philosophy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/worldly-success-how-much-is-enough-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Worldly Success: How Much is Enough?&#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":[39,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935","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=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}