{"id":56431,"date":"2016-11-22T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cs_lewis_on_cs_lewis_day_v-on_modernity_versus_the_ancients\/"},"modified":"2017-06-03T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T22:46:23","slug":"cs_lewis_on_cs_lewis_day_v-on_modernity_versus_the_ancients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56431","title":{"rendered":"CS Lewis on CS Lewis Day (V)&#8211;On Modernity versus the Ancients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique: and both, in the practice of this technique, are ready to do things hitherto regarded as disgusting and impious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;C.S. Lewis, <b>The Abolition of Man<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56431\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,175,186,168,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60531,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56431\/revisions\/60531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}