{"id":1719,"date":"2017-11-03T18:46:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T23:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2017-11-03T18:46:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T23:46:44","slug":"students-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2017\/11\/03\/students-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Students of Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some of us are enslaved to glory, others to money. \u00a0But there are also a few people who devote themselves wholly to the study of the universe, believing everything else to be trivial in comparison. \u00a0These call themselves <strong>students of wisdom<\/strong>, in other words philosophers; and just as a festival attracts individuals of the finest type who just watch the proceedings without a thought of getting anything for themselves, so too, in life generally, the contemplation and study of nature are far superior to the whole range of other human activities.&#8221; Marcus Tullius Cicero, <em>Discussions at Tusculum<\/em> (V) 3. 8-9, in <em>Cicero: The Good Life<\/em>, trans. Michael Grant (London 1971), p. 56-57. [Emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some of us are enslaved to glory, others to money. \u00a0But there are also a few people who devote themselves wholly to the study of the universe, believing everything else to be trivial in comparison. \u00a0These call themselves students of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2017\/11\/03\/students-of-wisdom\/\">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":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,32,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-cicero","category-education","category-philosophy","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}