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... object , truth , becomes knowledge in posses- sion and wisdom in action . For Plato wisdom as the func- tion or virtue is always the immediate effect of knowledge , which is the form of truth in the mind . As such , knowledge is the ...
... object , truth , becomes knowledge in posses- sion and wisdom in action . For Plato wisdom as the func- tion or virtue is always the immediate effect of knowledge , which is the form of truth in the mind . As such , knowledge is the ...
Page 129
... object : The very essence of Truth is plainness and brightness ; the darkness and crookedness is our own . The wisdom of God created understanding , fit and proportionable to Truth the object and end of it , as the eye to the thing ...
... object : The very essence of Truth is plainness and brightness ; the darkness and crookedness is our own . The wisdom of God created understanding , fit and proportionable to Truth the object and end of it , as the eye to the thing ...
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... object of knowledge . If God , then , becomes the proper goal of Christian philosophy , knowl- edge cannot be the highest aim of humanity , and this for the good reason that God is unknowable . Milton had declared in De Doctrina ...
... object of knowledge . If God , then , becomes the proper goal of Christian philosophy , knowl- edge cannot be the highest aim of humanity , and this for the good reason that God is unknowable . Milton had declared in De Doctrina ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Plato and Milton Cornell paperbacks, ISSN 2574-707X Volume 35 of Cornell studies in English |
| Author | Irene Samuel |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 182 pages |
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