{"id":7731,"date":"2018-02-25T18:36:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2018-02-25T18:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:42:31","slug":"sources-of-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7731","title":{"rendered":"SOURCES OF THE SELF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Among other &#8220;lighter&#8221; reading, I am tacking two important, but formidable books: <em>After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory<\/em> by Alasdair MacIntyre and <em>Sources of the Self: the Making of Modern Identity<\/em> by Charles Taylor.\u00a0 It is good to have friends like Bill and Tim accompany me for both of these adventures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a page from a recent read, though many times I am reading sections more than once (!) from <em>Sources of the Self<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=7730\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7730\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/photo4-1-e1519604871750-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/photo4-1-e1519604871750-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/photo4-1-e1519604871750-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/photo4-1-e1519604871750-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/photo4-1-e1519604871750-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/photo4-1-e1519604871750-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other &#8220;lighter&#8221; reading, I am tacking two important, but formidable books: After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre and Sources of the Self: the Making of Modern Identity by Charles Taylor.\u00a0 It is good to have friends like Bill and Tim accompany me for both of these adventures. Here&#8217;s a page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}