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codipark's review against another edition
Reference Schall's Appendix 1 for twenty book recommendations.
*Re-read after I've read Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Josef Pieper, and Boswell's Life of Johnson
*Re-read after I've read Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Josef Pieper, and Boswell's Life of Johnson
theyoungveronica's review against another edition
1.0
This book became unpleasantly suffused with intrusive ideology, which I am simply not in the mood to read today. Anyone who speaks highly of both Augustine and Aquinas (Moaning-Myrtle-Augustine and Merely-Adequate-Aquinas, that is) earns my ire. Cue humdrum statement about how in the modern world—where relativism reigns supreme—to speak of truth as perennial and objective is the real radical position. (ok boomer!, she says irreverently.)
"The ultimate location of evil, consequentially, is not in our intelligence but in our will, wherein we choose to direct ourselves through what we know either to the truth or to our own chosen version of the truth as the basis of our actions in this world."
As any translator knows, much is lost in even the most banal act of translation or transcription. I'm so exasperated with meaningless statements being conferred respect because they derive from historical figures or because they have a thin veneer of cogency. Will is no more the origin of evil than it is the origin of good. Will is a by-product of consciousness and of intention. Since we are discussing a formulation that essentially hails the acquisition of knowledge as a descent into madness and depravity, I suppose this makes a modicum of sense. In any other consideration, it does not.
Takeaways, small in number:
"It is better to learn nothing than to have to unlearn much."
Greek word skole means leisure.
Sapientis est ordinare: "It is the task of the wise man to order things.
Capax omnium, capable of knowing all things.
"The ultimate location of evil, consequentially, is not in our intelligence but in our will, wherein we choose to direct ourselves through what we know either to the truth or to our own chosen version of the truth as the basis of our actions in this world."
As any translator knows, much is lost in even the most banal act of translation or transcription. I'm so exasperated with meaningless statements being conferred respect because they derive from historical figures or because they have a thin veneer of cogency. Will is no more the origin of evil than it is the origin of good. Will is a by-product of consciousness and of intention. Since we are discussing a formulation that essentially hails the acquisition of knowledge as a descent into madness and depravity, I suppose this makes a modicum of sense. In any other consideration, it does not.
Takeaways, small in number:
"It is better to learn nothing than to have to unlearn much."
Greek word skole means leisure.
Sapientis est ordinare: "It is the task of the wise man to order things.
Capax omnium, capable of knowing all things.
eojsmada's review against another edition
4.0
An interesting discussion on understanding the things that are important to maintaining one's love for philosophical and intellectual pursuits. Definitely geared more towards a Christian or classical philosophy student with its leanings towards Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine.
This is definitely a book you can come back to from time to time, throughout the rest of your life, and help to keep your mind more in tune with that of the philosophical training that you both received and still wish to maintain.
This is definitely a book you can come back to from time to time, throughout the rest of your life, and help to keep your mind more in tune with that of the philosophical training that you both received and still wish to maintain.
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