{"id":997,"date":"2010-02-10T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=997"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:11:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:11:23","slug":"moral-clarity-by-susan-neiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2010\/02\/10\/moral-clarity-by-susan-neiman\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Clarity by Susan Neiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/moral-clarity1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/moral-clarity1.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" title=\"moral-clarity\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/moral-clarity1.jpg 240w, https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/moral-clarity1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSusan Neiman&#8217;s &#8220;Moral Clarity &#8211; a guide for grown-up idealists&#8221; (2009) is a passionate and literary book about moral reasoning and the achievements of the Enlightenment (especially Kant). The book contains fantastic and acute re-readings of the myths of Job and Odysseus, as well as plenty of examples of Neiman&#8217;s own moral clarity &#8211; she has a great analyst&#8217;s knack of being able to articulate clearly and succinctly exactly what was so pernicious about many of the arguments and actions of the neocon government under Bush. Recommended.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8220;The Enlightenment gave reason pride of place, not because it expected absolute certainty, but because it sought a way to live without it&#8221;<\/i> (p218)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Neiman&#8217;s &#8220;Moral Clarity &#8211; a guide for grown-up idealists&#8221; (2009) is a passionate and literary book about moral reasoning and the achievements of the Enlightenment (especially Kant). The book contains fantastic and acute re-readings of the myths of Job and Odysseus, as well as plenty of examples of Neiman&#8217;s own moral clarity &#8211; she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-intellectual-self-defence","category-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}