Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 103
... highest order of civilization . If Aristotle disliked Plato's ' Universal Good ' because it could mean many things , Plato apparently liked it for that very reason : the Idea of the Good can unite in symbol all the varied aspects of the ...
... highest order of civilization . If Aristotle disliked Plato's ' Universal Good ' because it could mean many things , Plato apparently liked it for that very reason : the Idea of the Good can unite in symbol all the varied aspects of the ...
Page 109
... highest truth resides in any knowledge but that of good and evil , we might find them less unwilling to accept contemplation di- vorced from practice as the great source of happiness . Plato is often thought to have done this very thing ...
... highest truth resides in any knowledge but that of good and evil , we might find them less unwilling to accept contemplation di- vorced from practice as the great source of happiness . Plato is often thought to have done this very thing ...
Page 138
... highest degree to both of these thinkers , and in the highest degree important . This statement , however , would be concurred in by a number of philosophers , and would not in itself prove any such affinity as I have been claiming ...
... highest degree to both of these thinkers , and in the highest degree important . This statement , however , would be concurred in by a number of philosophers , and would not in itself prove any such affinity as I have been claiming ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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