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Milton's Socratic rationalism : the conversations of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost /
Milton's Socratic Rationalism focuses on the influence of Milton's years of private study of classical authors, chiefly Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle, on Paradise Lost. It examines the conversations of Adam and Eve as a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of Socrates in the dial...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Politics, literature, & film.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Socratic rationalism and the problem of audience; An excursus on the "difficulties" in the criticism; Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed; Notes; Chapter 1; Preliminaries; An argument in the poem; An argument in the Verse; Some doubtful matters in the Verse; An argument for the Verse; Two learned friends; Discerning a reason in rhyming verses; a method of inquiry in Xenophon's Memorabilia 4.6; The virtues of a Socratic rationalism in Paradise Lost; Notes; Chapter 2 ; Prologue; Notes; Chapter 3; Eve's First Words; Framing the Narrative; "Under a Platan"; Socratic self-knowledge
- Ovid's parody and Milton's Platonic translation"And wisdom, which alone is truly fair" (4.491); Notes; Chapter 4; An Interlude; His "pleaded reason[s]" (8.510); "With thee conversing, I forget all time," (4.639); "His own works and their works at once to view" (3.59); Adam: "nor think, though men were none . . ." (4.675); Narrative presence: "all things to man's delightful use" (4.692); Raphael: "the end\Of all yet done" (7.505-506); Adam: "something yet of doubt remains . . ." (8.13); Notes; Chapter 5; Becoming Dear ; Nature; Augustine and Aquinas: On Providence and the gift of Nature
- "My sudden apprehension"Providence; Learning "by conversation with his like"; Dreaming; Desiring; Judging "peculiar graces" (5.15); "Joining and disjoining" (5.106); Notes; Chapter 6; "No More of Talk" (9.1); "[Their] happy state" (5.234); An excursus: "the shady spaces of philosophy"; "Happy though thou art\ Happier thou may'st be" (5.75-76); An afterword; Notes; Note; Scriptural Texts; Works in Greek and Latin; Commentary and Criticism; About the Author