{"id":68513,"date":"2018-02-24T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68513"},"modified":"2018-02-24T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T18:06:51","slug":"saturday-food-for-thought-from-cs-lewis-on-modernity-versus-the-ancients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68513","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Food for Thought from CS Lewis&#8211;On Modernity versus the Ancients"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><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><\/blockquote>\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=68513\">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":[175,186,168,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68513","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=68513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68514,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68513\/revisions\/68514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}