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Gods Purpose for Creating Man with Free Will
“Not free, what proof could they have given sincere/Of true allegiance, constant faith or love,/Where only what they needs must do, appeared,/Not what they would? what praise could they receive?/What pleasure I from such obedience paid,/When will and reason (reason also is choice)/Useless and vain, of
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This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject, man’s disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed:
John Milton • Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
49 Fifty years ago, for example, Henry A. Murray claimed that “Melville’s Satan is the spitting image of Milton’s hero . . . the stricken, passionate, indignant, and often eloquent rebel angel of Paradise Lost, whose role is played by Ahab.”50 On such an interpretation Melville’s Moby Dick takes the place of Milton’s God, and Ahab’s prideful,
... See moreHubert Dreyfus • All Things Shining
These cellar dents, like deserted fox burrows, old holes, are all that is left where once were the stir and bustle of human life, and “fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,” in some form and dialect or other were by turns discussed.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Here she trailed off, because Michael was looking at her in an erasing way so that the strength of every word faded once it had entered the area of his auditory range.