{"id":582304,"date":"2023-12-30T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=582304"},"modified":"2023-12-30T07:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T12:33:33","slug":"the-point-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/30\/the-point-of-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Point of the State?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Satisfy our social instinct \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to be human is to be social.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u009dThe good life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aims of the state are two: to satisfy man&#8217;s social instinct, and to fit him for the good life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political rule differs from that over slaves in aiming primarily at the good of those who are ruled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political leaders aim to do what&#8217;s best for the people, unlike rulers of slaves who focus on their own interests.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politics is for the people&#8217;s benefit, not like controlling slaves for self-gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaders in politics should work for the people&#8217;s good, unlike slave masters who work for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aims of the state are two: to satisfy man&#8217;s social instinct, and to fit him for the good life. Political rule differs from that over slaves in aiming primarily at the good of those who are ruled. Political leaders aim to do what&#8217;s best for the people, unlike rulers of slaves who focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582312,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582304\/revisions\/582312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}