ABSTRACT

1. The evolution of freedom 2. The freedom of Milton’s God 3. The implicitness of freedom 4. Freedom and equality 5. A modified compatibilism 6. Backsliding and rationality 7. Science and freedom 8. Objective truths 9. Moral certainty 10. Investigation and inquiry in the Fall of Eve 11. Her repudiation of freedom 12. Fear of freedom in The Portrait of a Lady 13. Madame Merle and Gilbert in hell 14. The freedom of Ralph and Isabel 15. Isabel’s conscience