[Milton-L] Post-Renaissance Coarse Trips

[Dr. Larry Gorman]

Don't you think that when you work with concepts like licentiousness and
liberty you are asking for trouble?  The terms are so undefined, and the
categories slide into one another.  The problem with the quoted contrast
seems to me not so much that it is untrue (who knows?  There may be
times and places when it is) but that the tone betrays a
self-righteousness.  You suspect that the speaker doesn't regret that
licentiousness isn't liberty in the least.

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[mailto:milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
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Horace Jeffery Hodges (in his column) wrote: ". . .Licentiousness,
regrettably, is not liberty," which has Lincoln Steffens magnificently
argued, is not just not  true, it is viciously untrue. This false
contrast of Licentiousness and Liberty, and not (as MIlton argued)
necessity is the true plea of the Tyrant.

Carrol

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