[Milton-L] The Nature of Evil

[Carol Barton]

Mike, I think Milton defines evil (throughout his canon, not only in _Paradise Lost_) as "anything contrary to the will of God"--which, assuming one knows and understands the will of God, sums up the nature of evil fairly concisely.

Best to all,

Carol Barton

Carol Barton, Ph.D

 "Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." ~ John Milton, _Areopagitica_ (CPW 2:492).