
197: Sympathy and Satan
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The Romantic Reading
Karl truman has a really great definition of romanticism that i want to a give you. The romantics grounded ethics in aesthetics, in the cultivation of these important words, ampathy and sympathy. They saw satan as the hero because they sympathized or empathized with him. And by having him, sort of, by having his actual real inner turmoil and anguish depicted by milton, ah, he's made to be sympathetic. Think this is still the debate for things? I think you can definitely read milton as satan on your own.
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