The topic of this article will be not innocence but freedom, the Greek theme of A Separate Peace. (p. 1269)
Knowles is concerned with the implications of certain Greek ideas: the necessity and effects of freedom, and its corollary ideal of arete: the individual's fulfillment of his own excellences—moral, physical, intellectual, and political. In the first half, Phineas reflects these concerns.
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