{"id":503,"date":"2011-01-24T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=503"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:03:25","slug":"analects-of-the-core-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/01\/24\/analects-of-the-core-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Aristotle on happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try not to fret in this frozen city, Aristotle can help you find happiness without (much) reference to the weather:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For some people think that happiness is a virtue, others that it is practical wisdom, others that it is some kind of theoretical wisdom; others again believe it to be all or some of these accompanied by, or not devoid of, pleasure; and some people include external prosperity in its definition&#8230; the presumption is rather that they are all right in at least one or even in most respects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Aristotle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nicomachean-Ethics-Aristotle-Martin-Ostwald\/dp\/0023895306\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1295368678&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>Nicomachean Ethics<\/em><\/a> (1.1098b23), trans. Martin Oswald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try not to fret in this frozen city, Aristotle can help you find happiness without (much) reference to the weather: For some people think that happiness is a virtue, others that it is practical wisdom, others that it is some kind of theoretical wisdom; others again believe it to be all or some of these [&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":[48735,3719,4572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503"}],"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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}