ABSTRACT

1. The relevance of The Acting Person to the study of Milton 2. Ego will and idea in The Acting Person 3. And in Milton 4. Will and the hierarchy of the faculties 5. Milton’s hierarchical psychology 6. The simplicity of the experience of the person 7. Body and Soul 8. What happens in man 9. Sex and reason 10. Cognition and consciousness 11. Reflexive appropriation of values 12. Cognition and consciousness in the Son 13. Cognition and consciousness in Adam and Eve 14. The choice of evil 15. Reintegration after sin 16. Conscience and consciousness 17. Satan’s conscience 18. Adam’s intellectual connoisseurship 19. Adam as judge of himself 20. Samson’s felicity 21. The self and others 22. Individuation and equality 23. Equality and subordination 24. The challenge of Hume 25. The importance of the freedom of indifference