Milton and the Death of Man: Humanism on Trial in Paradise LostUniversity of Delaware Press, 2000 - 262 pages The 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Narrative as Argument | 13 |
Free Will in Paradise Lost and its Historical Roots | 56 |
Copyright | |
4 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
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