{"id":27459,"date":"2024-12-16T20:32:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T01:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=27459"},"modified":"2024-12-19T09:39:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:39:01","slug":"how-to-be-a-good-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/12\/16\/how-to-be-a-good-man\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a good man?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW121624-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW121624-13.jpg\" alt=\"How to be a good man?\" class=\"wp-image-27453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW121624-13.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW121624-13-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW121624-13-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AW121624-13-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How to be a good man?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Focus on being a good person. The specifics of what that looks like for any given man are less important than the basics of being a good human being. BC&#8217;s core classes in philosophy and theology have a lot to say about that, but one place to start might be Aristotle&#8217;s Ncomachean Ethics. Book II of that is about what is &#8220;good&#8221; (virtuous) in people. Two specifics, though: 1) Learn to admit when you&#8217;re wrong. 2) That thing that needs doing that nobody else wants to do? Do it yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on being a good person. The specifics of what that looks like for any given man are less important than the basics of being a good human being. BC&#8217;s core classes in philosophy and theology have a lot to say about that, but one place to start might be Aristotle&#8217;s Ncomachean Ethics. Book II &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/12\/16\/how-to-be-a-good-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to be a good man?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27475,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459\/revisions\/27475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}