{"id":435,"date":"2010-11-30T17:52:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=435"},"modified":"2013-08-28T19:44:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:44:11","slug":"analects-of-the-core-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/11\/30\/analects-of-the-core-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Milton on happiness and fear of harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paradise-Lost-Regained-Signet-Classics\/dp\/0451531647\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"300\" width=\"187\" alt=\"milton\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/11\/milton.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-441\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a narrow circuit strait&#8217;n&#8217;d by a Foe,<br \/>\nSubtle or violent, we not endu&#8217;d<br \/>\nSingle with like defence, wherever met,<br \/>\nHow are we happy, still in fear of harm?<br \/>\nBut harm preceeds not sin: only our Foe<br \/>\nTempting affronts us with his foul esteem<br \/>\nOf our integrity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today&#8217;s analect &#8212; suggested by Sarah Cole (Core &#8217;10, CAS &#8217;12) is taken from Milton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paradise-Lost-Regained-Signet-Classics\/dp\/0451531647\/\"><em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/a>, lines 323-29 (Eve addressing Adam), edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/features\/2010-5-6-Ricks.htm\">Prof. Christopher Ricks<\/a>, whose lecture last week for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/cc201\/\">CC201<\/a> was received with great enthusiasm. Students or alumni who wish to borrow a recording of the talk may sign out a VHS in the Core office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a narrow circuit strait&#8217;n&#8217;d by a Foe, Subtle or violent, we not endu&#8217;d Single with like defence, wherever met, How are we happy, still in fear of harm? But harm preceeds not sin: only our Foe Tempting affronts us with his foul esteem Of our integrity Today&#8217;s analect &#8212; suggested by Sarah Cole (Core [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[3915,3712,3914],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}