Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 101
... wisdom , between which terms Plato makes little distinction . Philosophy is the love of the rational element of the soul ; its object , truth , becomes knowledge in posses- sion and wisdom in action . For Plato wisdom as the func- tion ...
... wisdom , between which terms Plato makes little distinction . Philosophy is the love of the rational element of the soul ; its object , truth , becomes knowledge in posses- sion and wisdom in action . For Plato wisdom as the func- tion ...
Page 108
... wisdom as the object is low , cer- tain it is that he who hath obtained in more than the scantest measure to know anything distinctly of God , and of his true worship , and what is infallibly good and happy in the state of man's life ...
... wisdom as the object is low , cer- tain it is that he who hath obtained in more than the scantest measure to know anything distinctly of God , and of his true worship , and what is infallibly good and happy in the state of man's life ...
Page 117
... wisdom , faith and knowledge , all at once . As Plato had made the science of good and evil and its attend- ant virtue of wisdom the keystone of all happiness , upon which the right use of every other good depends , so Milton places the ...
... wisdom , faith and knowledge , all at once . As Plato had made the science of good and evil and its attend- ant virtue of wisdom the keystone of all happiness , upon which the right use of every other good depends , so Milton places the ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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