Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 47
... sense can there be in calling his words divinely inspired ? No sense at all in call- ing the words so , but much in so naming the gift ; for in exiling poets lest they corrupt his citizenry , the Platonic Socrates paid them an unusual ...
... sense can there be in calling his words divinely inspired ? No sense at all in call- ing the words so , but much in so naming the gift ; for in exiling poets lest they corrupt his citizenry , the Platonic Socrates paid them an unusual ...
Page 72
... senses however obtained , but what delights the best man , whose pleasure is a good and a test of the good in every other thing . In this sense pleasure and happiness may be identified , and Plato can deny that the tyranny of desire ...
... senses however obtained , but what delights the best man , whose pleasure is a good and a test of the good in every other thing . In this sense pleasure and happiness may be identified , and Plato can deny that the tyranny of desire ...
Page 76
... sense , like the senses themselves , are of God's making , and are appointed to be the due satisfaction of natural desire . Only the perversion of values whereby the purer feeds the grosser results in the Comus - like per- version of ...
... sense , like the senses themselves , are of God's making , and are appointed to be the due satisfaction of natural desire . Only the perversion of values whereby the purer feeds the grosser results in the Comus - like per- version of ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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