{"id":1460,"date":"2016-08-26T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T01:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2016-08-26T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T01:46:54","slug":"principles-over-passions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2016\/08\/26\/principles-over-passions\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles over Passions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To criticize a particular subject&#8230;a man must have been trained in that subject: to be a good critic generally, he must have had an all-round education. \u00a0Hence the young are not fit to be students of Political Science. \u00a0For they have no experience of life and conduct, and it is these that supply the premises and subject matter of this branch of philosophy. \u00a0And moreover <strong>they are led by their feelings<\/strong>; so that they will study the subject to no purpose or advantage, since the end of this science is not knowledge but action. \u00a0And it makes no difference whether they are young in years or immature in character; the defect is not a question of time, <strong>it is because their life and its various aims are guided by feeling<\/strong>; for to such persons their knowledge is of no use, any more than it is to persons of <strong>defective self-restraint<\/strong>. \u00a0But Moral Science may be of great value to those who guide their desires and actions by principle.&#8221; Aristotle, <em>Nicomachean Ethics<\/em> I. iii. 5-7. \u00a0[Emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To criticize a particular subject&#8230;a man must have been trained in that subject: to be a good critic generally, he must have had an all-round education. \u00a0Hence the young are not fit to be students of Political Science. \u00a0For they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2016\/08\/26\/principles-over-passions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,55,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aristotle","category-politics","category-virtue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}