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    1. Entering his thinking through a side door, starting with the epoche, I was less bothered than many others seem to be by Husserl's dry and long-winded writing, and his attempts to continue fighting late nineteenth century battles that most people consider to be totally outdated. Rather, I was struck by the fact that I found, smack in the middle of Western twentieth century philosophy something that I had first encountered in various ancient Asian writings, and that had transformed my life and my way of looking at the world.
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    1. When I consider how my light is spent, E're

      This line is interesting to me because it seems to have the same combination of time signatures we've seen in other Milton pieces. In one sense he is looking at how he spent all his waking hours during his life. On the other hand, this line evokes the rhythm of a day, when the sun sets in the west and darkness falls.

  7. Sep 2019
    1. so byinsisting that the poetic impulse could not be fulfilled unless the sexualimpulse was repressed, Milton was in effect creating an equivalence betweenthem.

      This sounds very similar to how many some people today believe that as both are an act of creation, there are some similarities between writing and reproduction from a certain philosophical point of view.

    2. Away with you, sleep-destroying worries' away with you'complainrs, and the squinting eye of envy with its crooked goatish look. Donot stretch your snaky f aws at me, cruel calumny' Your whole filthy gangcan do me no harm: I am not within your power. I shall stride on in safetywith an unwounded heart, lifted high above your viperous sting'

      I love this particular quote. Milton's defense of his choice to become a poet instead of following a more stable and more lucrative career is kind of inspiring. Here you can see he believes so strongly in his choice that he feels he is safer than any other choice.

  8. Apr 2019
    1. Punctuation is silence—laden, rhythmic silence

      Silence is a really cool tool to use in poetry. To me it is often the most powerful when used like a movie would use completely black and silent frames right after a powerful scene: it allows you to take in what you just read.

    2. But we can’t gainsay the emotional meaning—sometimes corroborative, sometimes opposing—of its rhythm-sounds.

      I think that a lot of people don't really properly consider the importance of how poetry sounds;like Schnackenberg says,there is an emotional meaning behind the rhythm of poetry. It can change how you perceive a certain work.

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    1. Incarcerated for the way they chatter,Telling obsessively a single storyOver and over, all reduced the ruler

      I really love this stanza and how the clocks are personified. They're essentially "imprisoned" due to their one function-to tell time. Also I like how clocks also give me the same kind of anxiety, they constantly tick forward, a literal constant reminder that time's arrow (oh hey Bojack Horseman) movement can't be stopped or delayed. The chatter is the ticking of the clock. The personification transforms an object so commonplace and innocuous as a clock into this ominous force of nature that's almost malicious in it's pursuit.

    1. e Milton's often-quoted distinction between his poetic right hand and polemic left hand as absolute (1: 808)—as if the two hands were not part of the same body and mind, and the right hand could and did ignore what the left hand was doing or had d

      This is a crucial point when looking at anyone's body of work with the intent of understanding the individual. It is easy to discard works that do not fit into your impression of Milton or that contradict his other works, but it is important to remember that all the works are still his and capture his state of mind as it was in the moment.

    2. The several personifications of Truth that Milton offers in Areopagitica afford a pertinent example

      I keep thinking about Areopagitica while reading Paradise Lost. I run into the intentional fallacy however, in that I shouldn't try to figure out the personality of the real author. I do believe understanding who John Milton was—how his philosophy was similar and different throughout his life can get us closer to understanding his seminal epic poem.

  12. Sep 2018
    1. began from the book of Genesis, as a prologue to his lawes; which Josephus right well hath noted. That the nation of the Jewes, reading therein the universall goodnesse of God to all creatures in the Creation, and his peculiar favour to them in his election of Abraham their ancestor, from whom they could derive so many blessings upon themselves, might be mov'd to obey sincerely by knowing so good a reason of their obedience. If then in the administration of civill justice, and under the obscurity of Ceremoniall rites, such care was had by the wisest of the heathen, and by Moses among the Jewes, to instruct them at least in a generall reason of that government to which their subjection was requir'd, how much more ought the members of the Church under the Gospell seeke to their understanding in the reason of that government which the Church claimes to have over them: especially for that the Church hath in her immediate cure those inner parts and affections of the mind where the seat of reason is; having power to examine our spirituall knowledge, and to demand from us in Gods behalfe a service intirely reasonable.

      Milton draws on the biblical account of God choosing Abraham to be the father of the Jews, and when Moses was chosen to lead the Jews to the promised land while instructing them in the law that God gave them. Milton argues that if Moses instructed the Jews in a theocracy under the law, how much more is the church supposed to instruct and govern its members?

    2. For there is not that thing in the world of more grave and urgent importance throughout the whole life of man, then is discipline.

      This fits with what Milton seems to think is important, as evidenced with his whole argument about how people need to have a form of discipline (self-discipline) to be truly virtuous people.

    3. discipline is not only the removall of disorder, but if any visible shape can be given to divine things, the very visible shape and image of vertue, whereby she is not only seene in the regular gestures and motions of her heavenly paces as she walkes, but also makes the harmony of her voice audible to mortall eares.

      This rings true

    4. Moses therefore the only Lawgiver that we can believe to have beene visibly taught of God, knowing how vaine it was to write lawes to men whose hearts were not first season'd with the knowledge of God

      The reason why Moses was chosen to send out God's message and preach about the Ten Commandments.

    1. Its pou,er is that it iives on the{r:ather line between fantasy and reality. It must be neither toouood nor too bad to be true, nor may it be too true.

      I hadn't thought about myths and fairytales like this before, but that's a really interesting way to look at it. I agree that they would lose a lot of impact if the balance was thrown off. There needs to be a certain amount of fantasy to balance the reality of the story. I guess people would often assume that these stories are just all fantasy but that isn't the case.

    2. We know now a new origin of the faint hissingof the sea in the conch shell held to the ear.It is in part the tremor and throb of the hand,resonating in the shell's chambers. Yet, inescapably, it is thedistant sea.

      I love this introduction.

    3. . Yet I would urge that wenot be too easily tempted into thinking that there is an oppo-sitional cpntrast between logos and mythos, the grammar ofexperieuce and the grammar of myth

      I feel like so often people are so quick to make this vast distinction and difference between the two when in fact they work together in this great harmony. Too often to people put logos on a pedestal and therefore only understand half of what they are looking at.

    4. iris is thc myth of happincss as innocence, and in ther llrristian traclition we know it as Man beforc the Fall' Inno-, , n('t: ends either by a succcssful attempt to steal the knorvl-, ' irr,r' of God or by aspiring to thc cognitive power of the gods'l,,tlt,ris

      Drawing parallels between Greek mythology and Christianity is interesting to me because I always like learning about the similarities in religions and how they all seem to bounce off of one another and makes me wonder what they all originated from in the very beginning. Some of the common themes are much too similar to not have been drawn from an originator.

    1. We are not only innocent, but alsoguilty; not only strong but weak; not only mutually entwined butirrevocably sundered; we are not only minds, but bodies; not onlywholes but fragrnents; not only energy but form.

      This shows the duality of ones personality and I like how she talks about this, as often in some myths/stories we are shown only one side of a characters personality and they're made out to be only one way. I like how this brings about the fluidity of personality and ones "self" #Insightful

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    1. Scientists have just detected a major change to the Earth’s oceans linked to a warming climate The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! Sign up *Invalid email address Got it Got it

      Overall scientific credibility: 'very high', according to 6 scientists who analyzed this article.

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  24. Jan 2017
    1. U.S. scientists officially declare 2016 the hottest year on record. That makes three in a row. The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! Sign up *Invalid email address Got it Got it

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    1. What we’re doing to the Earth has no parallel in 66 million years, scientists say The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! Sign up *Invalid email address Got it Got it .hideText{position:absolute;left:-10000px}

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    1. 2014 Breaks Heat Record

      Overall scientific credibility: 'high' to 'very high', according to 8 climate scientists who evaluated this article.

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      jgdwyer:

      This article accurately describes global warming and puts the news that 2014 is the hottest year on record into appropriate context. The article does a very good job of distinguishing between climate variability and climate change with helpful discussion on ENSO and the relatively cold temperatures in the Eastern United States (while staying within the bounds of the mainstream climate science understanding).

      karmour:

      Very good article overall. I do wish the author had fact checked the incorrect claim by Dr. Christy (that global temperatures have not changed since the end of the 20th century) prior to including his quote in the article.

      aklocker:

      Scientifically this article seems to be correct but it could be a bit more precise in some of its statements. One thing I like is that it mentions different opinions on some points where scientists do not agree rather than giving a biased story.

      bmv:

      This article does a good job of putting the 2014 temperature record in context with quotes from experts and good descriptions of relevant issues such as El Nino. References to "skeptics" were appropriately followed up by evidence of their misinterpretation/mischaracterization of the data.

      aalpert:

      This article provides an accurate and well supported evaluation of the finding that 2014 was the hottest year on record.

      emvincent:

      Overall, this article is fair in its representation of the 2014 temperature record event and in reminding the context of the long-term warming trend+natural climate variability.

      alexis.tantet:

      The quality of this article is overall higher than most newspaper articles on climate change as it avoids the usual pitfalls such as confusing year to year variability with long-term change. It also addresses issues prone to confusion, such as why eastern USA did not experience such a warm year as most of the globe, which can help the readers to put the science in perspective with the seasonal climate they have actually experienced. The fact that the article focuses mostly on the observational record and not on theoretical or modeling studies may be a weakness, but the scope of an article cannot be too broad.