{"id":1398,"date":"2011-10-12T10:14:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2013-08-29T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T00:01:36","slug":"analects-of-the-core-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/10\/12\/analects-of-the-core-149\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Hume on science and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; David Hume, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infidels.org\/library\/historical\/david_hume\/human_understanding.html\"><em>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. &#8211; David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[3692,3837,4019,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}