Intro to Lit 8: Shelley and Milton's sardonic God; moral judgment

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01/02/2016 50 min
Intro to Lit 8: Shelley and Milton's sardonic God; moral judgment

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On to Book 3 of Paradise Lost: Shelley on God's viciousness; God's jokes about Satan; similarities between the Son and Satan (via their courage) and God and Satan (via their gaming for humanity).  Question of justifying the ways of God to men: do we judge whether he's just?  How? Euthyphro dilemma.  Luther on God's apparently unjust ways (can't be justified independently to us).  Poetry in hell; philosophy in hell.

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