{"id":49,"date":"2005-06-09T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T21:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phlogma.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2005-06-10T19:44:26","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T19:44:26","slug":"the-serpent-and-the-dove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/general\/the-serpent-and-the-dove-49","title":{"rendered":"The serpent and the dove"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; only, on the other [405] hand, it is very sad that it cannot well maintain itself and is easily seduced. [Kant, <em>Fundamental Principles of  a Metaphysics of Morals<\/em>, First Section, par. 20 (Abbott trans., pp. 404-5).]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But how can we <em>admire<\/em> innocence? The fact is we can&#8217;t. Or, turning the question around, can we <em>love<\/em> the serpent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; only, on the other [405] hand, it is very sad that it cannot well maintain itself and is easily seduced. [Kant, Fundamental Principles of a Metaphysics of Morals, First Section, par. 20 (Abbott trans., pp. 404-5).] But how can we admire innocence? The fact is we can&#8217;t. Or, turning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/general\/the-serpent-and-the-dove-49\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The serpent and the dove&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-kant","category-moral-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}