{"id":9285,"date":"2021-04-12T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/12\/on-spending-ones-chips-reason-restlessness-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:39:51","slug":"on-spending-ones-chips-reason-restlessness-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/on-spending-ones-chips-reason-restlessness-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"On spending one\u2019s chips: Reason, restlessness, and the pursuit of happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey, both professors in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University, draw from their book, &#8220;Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment,&#8221; in an article appearing on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/reason-restlessness-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness\/13294074\">ABC Religion &amp; Ethics<\/a><\/strong>. They delve into a kind of &#8220;restless paralysis&#8221; faced by people who are on the cusp of making life-altering choices, an exercise they compare to &#8220;spending your chips.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They say these kinds of decisions, or wagers, &#8220;need not be leaps in the dark. Reason rightly deployed may lead us to hopefully, lovingly, and courageously bet our lives on a marriage, a church, and a vocation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/benjamin-storey\/\">Benjamin Storey<\/a>\u00a0is the Jane Gage Hipp Professor of European and American Political Thought, Politics and International Affairs, and the Director of the Tocqueville Program at Furman University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/jenna-storey\/\">Jenna Silber Storey<\/a>\u00a0is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Affairs, and the Executive Director of the Tocqueville Program at Furman University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey, both professors in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University, draw from their book, &#8220;Why We Are Restless: On the Modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}