{"id":9485,"date":"2021-08-11T16:46:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/11\/balancing-act\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:42:19","slug":"balancing-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/balancing-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/article\/balancing-act\">Humanities<\/a><\/strong>, the flagship magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Furman University professors Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey seek to give meaning to the popular but elusive &#8220;balanced life&#8221; ideal, and suggest that striving to achieve so-called balance might be the source of our lack of contentment.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, \u201cBalancing Act,\u201d the politics and international affairs professors channel competing philosophies of 16th and 17th century thinkers Michel de Montaigne and Blaise Pascal to inform how we should live, especially in light of the demands of a liberal arts education where \u201cnegotiating the traditional passage to successful adult life now means speeding ahead while sampling everything,\u201d they say. Instead, they write, \u201cIf liberal education is to be more than a pointless hustle, it will need to do better at helping people learn to face their lives as beings born not just to sample, but to choose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey teach political philosophy at Furman University and direct Furman\u2019s Tocqueville Program. Their essay is adapted from &#8220;Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment&#8221; (Princeton University Press, 2021). Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jbstorey.com\/\">jbstorey.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Humanities, the flagship magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Furman University professors Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey seek to give meaning to the popular but elusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,6,58,35,36,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-in-the-news","category-internships","category-parent-news","category-philosophy","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-study-away-and-international-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485","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=9485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}