Areopagitica and of Education: With Autobiographical Passages from Other Prose Works

by John Milton

Book Overview

In one volume. The classic defense of intellectual liberty and the freedom to publish, and Milton's plan for training rulers to be fit to govern. Also includes three autobiographical passages from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882950576
• ISBN13: 9780882950570
• Release Date: January 1951
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 7.4"

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Historically Significant Contribution

Anytime one looks at a work in another historical context, consideration of time and place must be given if the communicator's message is to make sense. This seventeenth century oration was delivered by John Milton to Parliament, with the central theme of the right of individuals to seek out the truth for themselves. A Christian worldview was the framework from which Milton's peers made decisions. The age of official state religions was a contemporary issue. Milton calls for the individual conscious to be the determining factor, not an institution. He bases his argument on historical precedent, the Bible, errors made by the Roman Catholic Church, and the virtue of the members of Parliament.