{"id":278,"date":"2019-04-08T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T17:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/?p=278"},"modified":"2019-04-08T17:14:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T17:14:02","slug":"balancing-reading-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/balancing-reading-and-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Reading and Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foucault recounts the ideas of the philosopher Seneca in his account of the Hupomnemata. Seneca stresses that one must balance between absorbing information and expressing one&#8217;s own thoughts, that is, reading and writing. He points out that one cannot possibly produce all information by himself.. He must reference other texts in order to adequately think himself and maintain a good relationship with himself. However, Seneca warns against the extreme opposite: writing too much. This phenomenon is called <em>stultitia<\/em>, and includes mental agitation, weakness, and a mind which is concerned too much with the future and is unable to fix itself in the present. Thus, one should aim to balance the amount of reading and writing one does in order to have the most beneficial relationship with oneself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foucault recounts the ideas of the philosopher Seneca in his account of the Hupomnemata. Seneca stresses that one must balance between absorbing information and expressing one&#8217;s own thoughts, that is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/balancing-reading-and-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Balancing Reading and Writing<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}