{"id":318,"date":"2021-03-31T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2022-12-19T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:10:31","slug":"consoling-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Consoling the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\nFare Forward, Issue 11\n\n\n\nIt may sound like I\u2019m trying to smuggle classical conceptions of rationality into contemporary notions of emotional awareness: Bren\u00e9 Brown cloaked under Aristotelian virtue ethics or Augustinian moral psychology. Perhaps I am doing&nbsp;some&nbsp;smuggling. But I do think that wisdom applied to action trains our unformed and unruly desires. It invites us to confess that our true loves are often mislabeled by our own hearts, that self-deception is an addictive substance, and that principles for action gained from experience, self-knowledge, and an abundance of wise friends is an invaluable good.So, I confess to some anxiety about pinning all our hopes for persuasion and moral transformation solely on appeals to beauty and narrative empathy\u2014as much as I value those things. I worry, for instance, about the very effective sophistry of the political fringe and the narrative power of the social media hivemind. I also worry about the heart\u2019s ability to weave stories that cater to our misbegotten appetites and addictions.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fare Forward, Issue 11 It may sound like I\u2019m trying to smuggle classical conceptions of rationality into contemporary notions of emotional awareness: Bren\u00e9 Brown cloaked under Aristotelian virtue ethics or Augustinian moral psychology. Perhaps I am doing&nbsp;some&nbsp;smuggling. But I do think that wisdom applied to action trains our unformed and unruly desires. It invites us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/?p=318\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henreckson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}