What do you think about the apparent dichotomy between Milton and Hobbes? The English civil war lead Thomas Hobbes to become the one of first major influential political philosophers 'without a chest.' He abandoned the believe in the virtuous citizen held up so high by Aristotle, who Aquinas Loved, but Hobbes hated. Milton on the other hand, in the midst of the English civil war was the ultimate man with a chest, as you have pointed out that he felt very strongly about the importance of virtue in any republic. A political science professor at Yale names Steven B Smith recently wrote a book called "reclaiming patriotism in the age of extremes" in which he argues that patriotism is an aristotalian virtue to which nationalism is it's corresponding vice of excess. I wonder if he has studied Milton as a political philosopher
I obviously don't know that Steven B Smith hasn't read. Patriotism is hardly an Aristotelian virtue, as any study of Thucydides will make plain. There are many writers who will appeal to patriotism besides Aristotle, but he is certainly one worth reading.
@@LitProf it's interesting that you point that out, since the first book Hobbes ever wrote was a translation of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian war. I haven't read i, but I certainly would like to some day
The Christian Gospel is a far-far cry from Lgbtq+ "literature" for children. Also, Time-Life Publishing (1930s) was "licensing" everything until the rise of the Internet (1995).
It's nowhere close to the first defense of free speech in any language or in English. Literature brims with more or less direct defenses of free speech (in books) from antiquity. It's the best in English and therefore arguably the best in any language
Thanks very much, Dr Masson.
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What do you think about the apparent dichotomy between Milton and Hobbes? The English civil war lead Thomas Hobbes to become the one of first major influential political philosophers 'without a chest.' He abandoned the believe in the virtuous citizen held up so high by Aristotle, who Aquinas Loved, but Hobbes hated. Milton on the other hand, in the midst of the English civil war was the ultimate man with a chest, as you have pointed out that he felt very strongly about the importance of virtue in any republic.
A political science professor at Yale names Steven B Smith recently wrote a book called "reclaiming patriotism in the age of extremes" in which he argues that patriotism is an aristotalian virtue to which nationalism is it's corresponding vice of excess. I wonder if he has studied Milton as a political philosopher
I obviously don't know that Steven B Smith hasn't read.
Patriotism is hardly an Aristotelian virtue, as any study of Thucydides will make plain. There are many writers who will appeal to patriotism besides Aristotle, but he is certainly one worth reading.
@@LitProf it's interesting that you point that out, since the first book Hobbes ever wrote was a translation of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian war. I haven't read i, but I certainly would like to some day
So, you have no love for your "nation"?
Is there a part 2? The video cuts off abruptly
I am afraid not. Technical problem.
I am teaching the class again this coming semester.
@@LitProf thanks for the quick response!
I think it needs to be handed out on street corners again, especially in silicon valley.
The Christian Gospel is a far-far cry from Lgbtq+ "literature" for children. Also, Time-Life Publishing (1930s) was "licensing" everything until the rise of the Internet (1995).
It's nowhere close to the first defense of free speech in any language or in English. Literature brims with more or less direct defenses of free speech (in books) from antiquity. It's the best in English and therefore arguably the best in any language
I am intrigued where you would regard the first defence to reside.
I agree it’s implicit in antiquity.