{"id":736,"date":"2016-06-29T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2016-07-02T22:03:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T05:03:22","slug":"future-human-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/future-human-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Human Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this quote from Krista Tippett, host of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onbeing.org\/\">On Being<\/a> podcast, in her book <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/294sMNd\"><em>Becoming Wise<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Einstein] began his life with a profound faith in the social good of the scientific enterprise\u2014a community of cosmic endeavor that should transcend tribal rivalries and national boundaries. Then he watched German science hand itself over to fascism. He watched chemists and physicists become creators of weapons of mass destruction. He said that science in his generation had become like a razor blade in the hands of a three-year-old. He began to see figures such as Gandhi and Moses, Jesus and Buddha and St. Francis of Assisi, as \u201cgeniuses in the art of living.\u201d He proposed that their qualities of \u201cspiritual genius\u201d were more necessary to the future of human dignity, security, and joy than objective knowledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just as there&#8217;s a place for science and rationality, there&#8217;s a place for emotion, intuition, and spirituality. What a good reminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this quote from Krista Tippett, host of the On Being podcast, in her book Becoming Wise: [Einstein] began his life with a profound faith in the social good of the scientific enterprise\u2014a community of cosmic endeavor that should transcend tribal rivalries and national boundaries. Then he watched German science hand itself over to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-bS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}