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... WEALTH In the Republic Socrates ranks wealth as an object of pursuit intermediate between sensual pleasure and power . Like other goods popularly thought to be the means to hap- piness , wealth is itself neither good nor bad ; but the ...
... WEALTH In the Republic Socrates ranks wealth as an object of pursuit intermediate between sensual pleasure and power . Like other goods popularly thought to be the means to hap- piness , wealth is itself neither good nor bad ; but the ...
Page 83
... wealth with corruption : Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane . ( 1. 690-2 . ) Later in the poem Michael comments ... wealth without these three 83 THE GOOD LIFE : PLEASURE , WEALTH , FAME.
... wealth with corruption : Let none admire That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane . ( 1. 690-2 . ) Later in the poem Michael comments ... wealth without these three 83 THE GOOD LIFE : PLEASURE , WEALTH , FAME.
Page 84
... wealth causes its own ruin . So Socrates had argued : The excess of wealth , and the neglect of all else but money- making , destroyed oligarchy . ( Rep . 8. 562. ) Further , against the many who suppose wealth to be the object of the ...
... wealth causes its own ruin . So Socrates had argued : The excess of wealth , and the neglect of all else but money- making , destroyed oligarchy . ( Rep . 8. 562. ) Further , against the many who suppose wealth to be the object of the ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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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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