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Tag: Augustine

Gilbert Meilaender’s Augustinian politics

Quote6 January 201410 September 2014 llwilmothLeave a comment

Gilbert Meilaender’s Augustinian politics We look to politics for the satisfaction of so many of our desires; yet, thinking with Augustine should remind us that the deepest longings of the restless human heart can never be stilled by any good that politics provides. And because this is true, because even our most powerful institutions cannot […]

Gilbert Meilaender on limits to self-knowledge

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Any attempt definitively to review our lives or integrate fully their divergent strands may be futile; for we cannot find a place from which to see ourselves whole, to catch the heart and hold it still. That is the profound insight of book 10 of Augustine’s Confessions. … For when in book 10 Augustine begins to […]

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