{"id":9624,"date":"2012-06-20T04:45:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T04:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/20\/self-effacement-and-self-importance\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T04:45:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T04:45:54","slug":"self-effacement-and-self-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/20\/self-effacement-and-self-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Effacement and Self-Importance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">To what extent is it a sign of self-importance that one regularly draws attention to one&#39;s own insignificance?&#0160; I am thinking of <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/simone_weil\/\" target=\"_self\">Simone Weil<\/a>.&#0160;&#0160; In self-effacement the ego may find a way to assert itself.&#0160; &quot;Do you see how pure and penetrating is my love of truth that I am able to realize and admit my own personal nothingness face to face with Truth?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The ego, wily &#39;structure&#39; that it is, usually (always?) finds a way to affirm itself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To what extent is it a sign of self-importance that one regularly draws attention to one&#39;s own insignificance?&#0160; I am thinking of Simone Weil.&#0160;&#0160; In self-effacement the ego may find a way to assert itself.&#0160; &quot;Do you see how pure and penetrating is my love of truth that I am able to realize and admit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/20\/self-effacement-and-self-importance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Self-Effacement and Self-Importance&#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":[39,221,328,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-psychology-and-personality-typology","category-self-self-awareness-self-reference","category-weil-simone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624","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=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}