Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1947 - 182 pages |
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Page 71
... PLEASURE In Plato's scheme the life of pleasure corresponds to the rule of the lowest faculty of the soul . Appetite , the ' many- headed monster , ' has three main desires : food , drink , and sexual gratification . None of these is ...
... PLEASURE In Plato's scheme the life of pleasure corresponds to the rule of the lowest faculty of the soul . Appetite , the ' many- headed monster , ' has three main desires : food , drink , and sexual gratification . None of these is ...
Page 72
... pleasure to be a good at all , he means not the gratification of the 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 ...
... pleasure to be a good at all , he means not the gratification of the 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 ...
Page 78
Irene Samuel. that unnecessary and ignoble pleasures tempt only the most degraded ; he is also Platonist enough to see that pleasures of sight and smell are more likely to win a noble mind than the pleasure of taste alone . The banquet ...
Irene Samuel. that unnecessary and ignoble pleasures tempt only the most degraded ; he is also Platonist enough to see that pleasures of sight and smell are more likely to win a noble mind than the pleasure of taste alone . The banquet ...
Contents
MILTON AS A STUDENT OF PLATO | 3 |
ACADEMICS OLD AND NEW | 27 |
HIMSELF A TRUE POEM | 45 |
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