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can someone explain the extent and reasoning behind plato's influence on augustine's writing? for example, in book 1 of on free will augustine almost exactly duplicates the reasoning in republic's books 1-4 (the total ordering of temperance and the four virtues). why would the workings of a pre-christian philosopher mean so much to augustine? is it a historical context thing? ty

>Thus doth the soul commit fornication, when she turns from Thee, seeking without Thee, what she findeth not pure and untainted, till she returns to Thee. Thus all pervertedly imitate Thee, who remove far from Thee, and lift themselves up against Thee. But even by thus imitating Thee, they imply Thee to be the Creator of all nature; whence there is no place whither altogether to retire from Thee. What then did I love in that theft? and wherein did I even corruptly and pervertedly imitate my Lord? Did I wish even by stealth to do contrary to Thy law, because by power I could not, so that being a prisoner, I might mimic a maimed liberty by doing with impunity things unpermitted me, a darkened likeness of Thy Omnipotency? Behold, Thy servant, fleeing from his Lord, and obtaining a shadow.

STOP READING MY MIND

For me, it's the Saint Augustine.

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have sex

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Augustine

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It is all One; therefore I say, He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

>>12645843
>religious morality is just the threat of hell

No, it's the promise of a transcendent morality that exists along side this one. I'm a practicing Christian and I honestly wouldn't even care if there was no afterlife. I don't do this for a heaven after this life, I do it for a heaven that exists alongside this one.

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*epic black man improves plato meme

FTFY

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>Spengler was a completely original thi-

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that strength is virtue

ah fookinait pagans

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Libido dominandi

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>if i like it it is important

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absolutely abysmal post

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>God i despise human sexuality, so pathetic

FTFY

>uh-gus-tin

I'm looking for good books on Irish Catholic history, especially on Irish Catholic Americans and Irish Catholic architecture

I have developed the ultimate theology. The only one that makes sense and is not logically debeatable.

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>*snurfle snurfle IQ snurfle snurfle*