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Milton and Free Will - An Essay in Criticism and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Milton and Free Will - An Essay in Criticism and Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Milton
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First published in 1987. Milton and Free Will is an incisive,
ambitious and comprehensive analysis and defence of the concept of
free will, using Milton as an example and exemplar. Written with
passion, and out of a lifelong engagement with the poetry of Milton
and the philosophical and theological problems it encompasses, the
book will illuminate both Milton studies and philosophical debate.
The author engages with all the major currents of the free will
debate, starting with Aristotle and Aquinas and considering
arguments advanced by Hume and Kant as well as those of a number of
modern philosophers including Polanyi, Kenny, Parfit, Plantinga,
Swinburne, Dennett and Davidson. He pays particular attention to
the Marxist formalism of Bakhtin, the Catholic phenomenology of
Pope John Paul II and the evolutionism of Monod and Sober. He
concludes with a rebuttal of the deconstructionism of Barthes,
Derrida and Foucault. He claims that all the major difficulties
faced by defenders of free will can be overcome if a notion of
willing implicit in the work of Milton is properly understood.
Freedom as Milton represented and understood it, he suggests, is a
condition of mind arising out of inter-personal awareness and not a
property or consequence of practical reasoning. He finds supporting
evidence for this view in the writings of Newman and in Henry
James's The Portrait of a Lady, which he reads as a narrative
structurally reversing Milton's representation of the fall of Eve
in Paradise Lost. The author systematically analyses and reanalyses
key passages in his texts in the light of the many arguments for
and against free will, seeking thereby to affirm the validity in
principle, and the personal and political importance in practice,
of the Christian humanist tradition of which he sees Milton, Newman
and the Pope as important (if sometimes misleading) spokesmen.
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