{"id":815,"date":"2008-01-01T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2008\/01\/01\/new-years-resolutions"},"modified":"2008-01-01T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T14:06:00","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2008\/01\/01\/new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/neholistic.com\/articles\/0106.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article <\/a>I read today, the practice of making New Year&#8217;s Resolutions dates back to Babylonian times:<br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>Four thousand years ago in Babylonian times, resolutions were made with the<br \/>intention that what was done on the first day of the New Year would be reflected<br \/>in the remaining days of the year.  Incidentally, the Babylonian New Year<br \/>was celebrated in March to coincide with the planting of the spring crops. <br \/>The Babylonians were in touch with the rhythms of the seasons and farming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe: You can read some philosophical musings on the topic at <a href=\"http:\/\/theologica.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/new-years-resolutions-guest-post-by.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/theologica.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/new-years-resolutions-guest-post-by.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it true that the making of resolutions, as the post linked to here suggests, reflect &#8220;<em>a sensed need for moral reformation<\/em>&#8220;. I guess the two extremes are seeing Resolutions in this serious, moral sense, and the view that they are petty, trivial and to do with a banal self-obssessive expression of dissatisfaction and self-disgust. I guess the two might be not so far away from each other as they seem.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I think &#8216;returning essays to students on time&#8217; does not seem exceptionally moral as a goal &#8211; but may be a popular one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Any philosophical resolutions from readers of the blog?<br \/>Happy New Year,  Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article I read today, the practice of making New Year&#8217;s Resolutions dates back to Babylonian times:Four thousand years ago in Babylonian times, resolutions were made with theintention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,157,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral","category-new-year","category-resolutions"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}