Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 39
... Christian Neoplatonists , serves to expand the poetic brevity of the Bible . Even when Milton speaks of the soul's native star ( as in Damon 123 ) Christian tradition gives him warrant . Dante too used this Platonic myth , and long ...
... Christian Neoplatonists , serves to expand the poetic brevity of the Bible . Even when Milton speaks of the soul's native star ( as in Damon 123 ) Christian tradition gives him warrant . Dante too used this Platonic myth , and long ...
Page 40
... Christian Platonists in the age is with him . Even when he slips on a very few occasions into suggesting that the soul enjoyed a previous existence , as in Ad Patrem 30-1 , the Christian mysticism of the time supports him . On all these ...
... Christian Platonists in the age is with him . Even when he slips on a very few occasions into suggesting that the soul enjoyed a previous existence , as in Ad Patrem 30-1 , the Christian mysticism of the time supports him . On all these ...
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... Christian view , love of God with its necessary and insep- arable companion , love of neighbor . As the highest virtues in the Platonic scale , wisdom and its companion , justice , are displaced by the Christian virtues , so knowledge ...
... Christian view , love of God with its necessary and insep- arable companion , love of neighbor . As the highest virtues in the Platonic scale , wisdom and its companion , justice , are displaced by the Christian virtues , so knowledge ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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