{"id":2793,"date":"2022-02-20T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T00:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2022-02-20T19:16:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T01:16:34","slug":"2793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2022\/02\/20\/2793\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Nature and Injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Injustice is sin. When universal Nature has constituted rational creatures for the sake of each other&#8211;to benefit one another as deserved, but never to harm&#8211;anyone contravening her will is clearly guilty of sin against the oldest of the gods: because universal Nature is the nature of ultimate reality, to which all present existence is related.&#8221; Marcus Aurelius, <em>Meditations<\/em>, Chap. 9, trans. Martin Hammond (London: Penguin, 2006), p. 83.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Aurelius (d. AD 180) ruled the Roman Empire from AD 161 to 180.\u00a0 Despite his significant reign as the last of the &#8220;good emperors,&#8221; his written collection of short meditations have made him famous as a Stoic philosopher.\u00a0 In this text he expresses the Stoic idea that justice is a universal ideal rooted in nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Injustice is sin. When universal Nature has constituted rational creatures for the sake of each other&#8211;to benefit one another as deserved, but never to harm&#8211;anyone contravening her will is clearly guilty of sin against the oldest of the gods: because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2022\/02\/20\/2793\/\">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":[35,153,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-justice","category-marcus-aurelius","category-reason","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","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=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}