/lit/ - Literature

>>21396212
>the level of terror in the Will domination on Oneness
Wasn't there a thread not too long ago about him crying over Augustine's massa damnata?

>>21302889
The absence of good. Simple as.
>t. Patron saint of conjuctivitis

>>20112059
After Augustine pagans couldn't argue against Christianity anymore since his arguments were irrefutable. It's why paganism died out after Augustines time, there was no way to maintain an intellectual paganism in a world where Augustine had so thoroughly refuted that it can exist without Christianity that it's adherents simply died out.

>>19983905
How did Augustine single handedly destroy every single pagan philosopher then? For being uneducated country bumpkins it sure is weird that Christians dominated Pagans in rhetoric so thoroughly that it ceased to be within a few generations of Christianity being legalized.

Augustine makes people chimp out a bit because he is the ultimate example of Christianity telling people they can't just have sexual pleasure whenever they want, and people get really mad at that.

>dude the greeks literally had a God of thieves and Zeus raped women!
>meanwhile their desert demon god genocided entire races
Why do christcucks believe they have any say in criticizing everyone else's Gods when their God is the most immoral and evil tyrant to come out of the Canaanite pantheon?

>devote your whole life to writing absolutely nothing of value and seething about any other doctrine or religion
>1600 years later we get all of his works fully preserved but not countless Greek and Roman epics or pre-christian philosophical treaties
Imagine bragging about being culture preservers while preserving the bare minimum culture. Christcucks are absolutely mentally ill.

>can't explain the trinity without resorting to mental gymnastics
>instead of trying further makes up other corporeal and incorporeal "trinities" to justify his autistic reasoning
Why is Augustine such a brainlet hack who wrote nothing of value?

>Writes 7 books concerning mental gymnastics devised to justify the trinity meme
>Book 8 begins
>"akshually just shut down your brain and believe in this shit."
How can one take Christians seriously again?

>the begetter begat the begotten which is a consequence of the of the beginning he begets himself when he begats the begetter of his begotten
Thanks, Augustine, my faith in the Christian God is totally assured now that I know the necessary mental gymnastics to understand the trinity.

>starts explaining his thoughts regarding the scriptures
>in the middle of a book he halts to spew blatant lies on the roman pagans
Couldn't this crypto-kike just stop thinking about pagans 24/7? Every time i check the pre-christian authors which are said to have exposed paganism, their actual quotes turn out to be incorrect. How was he supposed to teach us how to interpret the Bible if he couldn't even read correctly the pagans he was so buttblasted about?

>>16246409
Tu excitas ut laudare te delectet quia fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.

'Just in the same way, what are called vices in the soul are nothing but privations of natural good. And when they are cured, they are not transferred elsewhere: when they cease to exist in the healthy soul, they cannot exist anywhere else.'

If Evil is a lack, a deficiency, an absence of Good, a lack of substance, does this mean that an Evil entity, say a hypothetical demon or witch can never be powerful?

>>15832592
He is inherently good, but may have evil inclinations as a result of a lack of good in himself. I don't like to say it but Rousseau was unto something with this one.

>>15802254
This. Have you read Augustine? He very easily modifies a Platonic conception of metaphysics to fit the Christian worldview. Read the City of God.

This board has been seething hard at Augustine for the last couple of days. What gives?

Because Christianity is true. Duh. That's why all the saints chose it.

>>14784478
I'll pray for you too. Here's a hint: Manicheanism is wrong and Augustine is right.

I'm a Platonist/Augustinian. I feel like the Plato/Aristotle distinction extends into Christianity in the form of the divide between Augustine and Aquinas. Augustine skews more towards Plato, while Aquinas, obviously, skews more towards Aristotle. They're both orthodox, so they both agree on a lot, but they've got different points of emphasis based on their proximity to their respectively most influential Greek philosophers. Anyone who's an instinctive Platonist is probably going to be an instinctive Augustinian, and anyone who's an instinctive Aristotelian is probably going to be an instinctive Thomist.

O RLY?

>I feel sad, what's a book that will help me feel better?
>I'll never have sex, what's a book that will help me cope with this?
>What's a book that will help me if I'm 18 and have nowhere to go with life?
>I'm a pathetic incel, books for this feel?

So many of these threads on /lit/. But they all have one solution:

The Confessions, by Augustine. Everyone on /lit/ who hasn't read the Confessions should read them. If you are miserable, and you live in the 21st Century, the Confessions is an extremely relatable book.

Hello /lit anons, help me out. Should I read pic related's works? Are they worth it? What would I gain from Confessions or City of God? Is he absolute shit? If so, why?

my man augustine

Today is the feast day of St. Augustine of Hippo, one of the most towering figures in the entire Western intellectual tradition.

Say something nice about him!