[lit-ideas] Re: Univocal philosophy as the value of transcendental claims?
- From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:40:11 +0700
Eric Yost wrote:
"Consider these instances to the contrary, though one might argue that
denial is an acknowledgment of that which has been previously
asserted.
Bertram says, "By heaven! I'll steal away."
The First Lord replies, "There's honour in the theft. "
[William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well]
Tis no sin love's fruit to steal;
But the sweet theft to reveal,
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.
[Ben Jonson, "To Celia"]
Take adultery or theft.
Merely sins.
It is evil who dines on the soul,
stretching out its long bone tongue.
It is evil who tweezers my heart,
picking out its atomic worms.
[Anne Sexton, "Letters to Dr. Y....."]
Here I will defer to Eric Y. and those who are more knowledgeable and
talented than me, and only ask whether the metaphorical use of theft
in these examples draws on the moral prohibition in order to create
its sense?
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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