{"id":3750,"date":"2025-09-13T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:17:00","slug":"beast-or-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/beast-or-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Beast or God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god \u2014 <\/em>Aristotle (384\u2013322 BCE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">It is our social nature which provides us with our deepest feelings of sentiment and love; but another part of our nature transforms sentiment and love from the pathos of instinct to the inspiration of beauty. We are all social by instinct, but many an individual <em>beast<\/em> has heard the music, seen the light, understood the pattern, and followed the qualia, only to become an individual <em>god<\/em>. Society condemned Socrates, Spinoza, Galileo, yet they ultimately bestowed fortunes upon human kind; these are but three giants, but even a child may be qualiadelic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">Society may precede the individual, but only the individual can ritual consciously. We certainly need society, just as we need our bodies \u2014 but we should be wary of letting our social and physical instincts interfere with our sense for qualia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/beast-or-god\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-qualiens","post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QShd-Yu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}