Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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... important , Peripatetic , to speak for themselves ? With Stoic and Epicurean , the answer is surely that Milton cared little for what they might say . He invariably refers to Epicureanism and Stoicism with contempt ; and though he ...
... important , Peripatetic , to speak for themselves ? With Stoic and Epicurean , the answer is surely that Milton cared little for what they might say . He invariably refers to Epicureanism and Stoicism with contempt ; and though he ...
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... important to him was Augustine , in whose work Platonic thought , already adapted to Christianity by Clement and Origen , became its very handmaid . With Protestants Augustine was especially popular ; he presented a doctrine convenient ...
... important to him was Augustine , in whose work Platonic thought , already adapted to Christianity by Clement and Origen , became its very handmaid . With Protestants Augustine was especially popular ; he presented a doctrine convenient ...
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... important . This statement , however , would be concurred in by a number of philosophers , and would not in itself ... importance to Milton , and of an importance far beyond any other philosopher's . The belief that the moral world is ...
... important . This statement , however , would be concurred in by a number of philosophers , and would not in itself ... importance to Milton , and of an importance far beyond any other philosopher's . The belief that the moral world is ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
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