Download or read book Milton's Socratic Rationalism written by David Oliver Davies and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton's Socratic Rationalism focuses on the influence of Milton's years of private study of classical authors, chiefly Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle, on Paradise Lost. It examines the conversations of Adam and Eve as a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of Socrates in the dialogues of Plato and eponymous discourses of Xenophon.