Milton and the Death of Man: Humanism on Trial in Paradise LostThe core of Milton and the Death of Man is a detailed study of the implicit courtroom narrative (in defense of God) at the heart of Paradise Lost. Separate sections are devoted to the legal and religious background of the notion of a narrative defense of God, the history of the free will concept underlying the defense, the way theories of the origin of the universe bear on the defense, and the question of justice and mercy as they affect both Tempters and Temptees. The study is designed to bring out conceptual issues central to the poem and to the intellectual life of the Renaissance as well as our own culture. |
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... course or was evidence , until nullified by the example of free agents who failed to stay the course . The result , as he says , is doubt ( in the radical sense of " uncertainty either way " ) . If we grant that confidence puts Adam at ...
... course or was evidence , until nullified by the example of free agents who failed to stay the course . The result , as he says , is doubt ( in the radical sense of " uncertainty either way " ) . If we grant that confidence puts Adam at ...
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... course , is that to accuse nature here would be to accuse the God of nature - unjustly ; the whole point of making the inner garden wild is , once again , to challenge the tenant to tame it . ( Again , this wild- ness will have to be ...
... course , is that to accuse nature here would be to accuse the God of nature - unjustly ; the whole point of making the inner garden wild is , once again , to challenge the tenant to tame it . ( Again , this wild- ness will have to be ...
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... course , the only mo- ment it will ever be at is the moment it's at already : the fixed or " certain " position it occupies in the order of actual moments and events . In this sense , a future event is not one jot less " certain ...
... course , the only mo- ment it will ever be at is the moment it's at already : the fixed or " certain " position it occupies in the order of actual moments and events . In this sense , a future event is not one jot less " certain ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Narrative as Argument | 13 |
Free Will in Paradise Lost and its Historical Roots | 56 |
Copyright | |
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Adam and Eve Adam's Advo Advocate Advocate's agent angels Aquinas argue argument Aristotle atoms Augustinian better judgment blame body Calvin cause chance Chaos choose Christian claim comes course covenant created creation creatures crucial death defense Descartes divine Earth epic Erasmus Ethica Eve's evil fact faith fall free agency Free Will Defense freedom freewill garden give God's goes grace happen heart Heav'n Hell Hobbes human Ibid infinite innocence italics Judge justice kind least less libero arbitrio libertarian look Lucretius matter means ment metaphor Migne Milton mind moral nature notion obedience one's Paradise Lost Patrologia Graeca Patrologia Latina Plotinus precisely punishment question Quintilian Raphael rational reason Satan seems sense Serpent short simply soul spirit Summa Summa Theologica Targum Jonathan thee theodicy there's things thir thou thought tion turn virtue what's words wrong