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... human terms as an accommoda- tion to the inferior sensory understanding of human beings . Milton adopted a similar theory of accommodation in Paradise Lost ( §S - 461 : pp . 159–63 ; §S - 486 : pp . 9-15 ) . How , Raphael asks , is he ...
... human terms as an accommoda- tion to the inferior sensory understanding of human beings . Milton adopted a similar theory of accommodation in Paradise Lost ( §S - 461 : pp . 159–63 ; §S - 486 : pp . 9-15 ) . How , Raphael asks , is he ...
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... human world are not linked in an ordered structure . They are not guided by divine purposes , and human institutions are shaped by strictly human wills . It is in this secular , naturalistic spirit that Hobbes developed his political ...
... human world are not linked in an ordered structure . They are not guided by divine purposes , and human institutions are shaped by strictly human wills . It is in this secular , naturalistic spirit that Hobbes developed his political ...
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... human knowledge , and in the methods and explanations he urged , he owed a great deal to the ' natural magicians ' whom he attacked . He took it for granted that nature should be studied ' with a view to work ' , and recognised that it ...
... human knowledge , and in the methods and explanations he urged , he owed a great deal to the ' natural magicians ' whom he attacked . He took it for granted that nature should be studied ' with a view to work ' , and recognised that it ...
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Political theory and political practice | 34 |
Population economy and society in Miltons England | 72 |
The educational background | 102 |
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