{"id":9172,"date":"2012-12-05T05:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/ego-and-sin\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T05:15:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:15:47","slug":"ego-and-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/ego-and-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego, Sin, and Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ego is at the root of sin, but also at the root of obsessive preoccupation with one&#39;s sinfulness. If the goal is to weaken the ego, then too much fretting over one&#39;s sins in the manner of a Wittgenstein is contraindicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is such a thing as excessive moral scrupulosity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Though Wittgenstein&#39;s ego drove him to scruple inordinately, he was a better man than Russell.&#0160; Russell worried about logic.&#0160; Wittgenstein worried about logic <em>and his sins<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ego is at the root of sin, but also at the root of obsessive preoccupation with one&#39;s sinfulness. If the goal is to weaken the ego, then too much fretting over one&#39;s sins in the manner of a Wittgenstein is contraindicated. There is such a thing as excessive moral scrupulosity. Though Wittgenstein&#39;s ego drove him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/ego-and-sin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ego, Sin, and Logic&#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":[69,60,139,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-ethics","category-religion","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172","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=9172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}