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In one of these , De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit , Milton delicately satirizes the hard - headed attitude which denies the real existence of the ideas because they cannot be seen and touched .
In one of these , De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit , Milton delicately satirizes the hard - headed attitude which denies the real existence of the ideas because they cannot be seen and touched .
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The idea of an external compulsion , binding two human beings together when mutual love and sympathy had departed ... Milton reiterates this fundamental idea again and again , and it furnishes the one interesting and vital element in ...
The idea of an external compulsion , binding two human beings together when mutual love and sympathy had departed ... Milton reiterates this fundamental idea again and again , and it furnishes the one interesting and vital element in ...
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Milton is expressing in this curious passage , so absurd to the modern reader , two profound anti - medieval convictions which constitute the basis of his thought : the metaphysical idea that matter is real and that there is no sharp ...
Milton is expressing in this curious passage , so absurd to the modern reader , two profound anti - medieval convictions which constitute the basis of his thought : the metaphysical idea that matter is real and that there is no sharp ...
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