{"id":13210,"date":"2014-12-27T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T04:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/27\/william-mcdougall-on-psychology-rationality-childhood-and-civilization-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2014-12-27T00:04:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T04:04:53","slug":"william-mcdougall-on-psychology-rationality-childhood-and-civilization-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2014\/12\/27\/william-mcdougall-on-psychology-rationality-childhood-and-civilization-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"William McDougall on Psychology, Rationality, Childhood and Civilization (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Grote Club post- this time connecting the Cambridge Mind with ideas that should be very familiar to readers of Etherwave- differential fertility and the specter of the decline of the upper classes in Britain and the United States. In the post, I outline through a close reading of the work of William McDougall how a narrow debate about the distinctions  between instinct and intelligence quickly shifted into a inquiry into the course and fate of ancient and modern civilizations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Grote Club post- this time connecting the Cambridge Mind with ideas that should be very familiar to readers of Etherwave- differential fertility and the specter of the decline of the upper classes in Britain and the United States. In the post, I outline through a close reading of the work of William McDougall how<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; William McDougall on Psychology, Rationality, Childhood and Civilization (Part II)<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2014\/12\/27\/william-mcdougall-on-psychology-rationality-childhood-and-civilization-part-ii\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}