[Milton-L] "Making Milton Matter"???? was Smokey Mountain...

[Jameela Lares]

Quoting Harold Skulsky <hskulsky at email.smith.edu>:

> (1) “Defenses of poetry are seldom persuasive to anyone who isn't
> already inside the ramparts. Those persuaded don't need to be because they
> already are, and those who need to be persuaded will not be because the
> premises won't be intelligible to them.”
>
> (2) “I stress that Milton is both really, really good and not
> outdated because I hope to have 2-3 more
> decades in academe.”
>
> The standard name for position (1) is nihilism. The standard name for
> position (2) is relativism.

But the name of position (2) responding to position (1) is argument, maugre the
poorly chosen "because" that suggested a kind of singular causality I didn't
indeed.

I don't think anyone who knows me would call me a relativist.

Jameela
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