{"id":10006,"date":"2015-11-30T03:54:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T03:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=10006"},"modified":"2015-11-30T04:03:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:03:22","slug":"isaiah-berlin-half-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/isaiah-berlin-half-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Berlin: Half Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Riga-Aug-09-AS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10008\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Riga-Aug-09-AS-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Riga, Aug 09 (AS) \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Riga-Aug-09-AS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Riga-Aug-09-AS-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Riga-Aug-09-AS.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.spectator.co.uk\/2015\/10\/fear-loneliness-and-nostalgia-a-return-to-johannesburg\/\">Isaiah Berlin:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As for the meaning of life, I do not believe that it has any: I do not at all ask what it is, for I suspect it has none, and this is a source of great comfort to me \u2014 we make of it what we can, and that is all there is about it. Those who seek for some deep, cosmic, all-embracing, teleologically arguable libretto or god are, believe me pathetically deluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far as I\u2019m concerned, Berlin is right about that meaning of life thing. It\u2019s nothing but a relief to me that there is none, and for the reasons he gives. \u00a0On the other hand, to describe those who have found some sort of god as \u2018pathetically deluded\u2019 is too smug and so far as that \u2018pathetically\u2019 is concerned, often inaccurate. As a species we seem to be hardwired for faith. Upbringing and culture will generally dictate the form that the faith takes, sometimes disastrously so, frequently not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah Berlin: As for the meaning of life, I do not believe that it has any: I do not at all ask what it is, for I suspect it has none, and this is a source of great comfort to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/isaiah-berlin-half-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,995],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10010,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10006\/revisions\/10010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}