Thursday, June 26
Re: Book 8 at last
Yeah, nice slow pace is cool with me :) wanna do one a week? or no schedule, just do it when it happens? Any opinions?
...since I started reading 40+ pages of War and Peace every day...
Thanks for reminding me, I bought Don Quixote yesterday (pretty good book so far)
"As a result, after Jesus' death (and resurrection) His followers only preached and healed and never used violence in the way that Augustine describes with Athens."
It is interesting what you about violence from the followers of Socrates and Jesus. I think that most people would think of Philosophers as more non-violent than Christians (think Crusades etc.)
..."But the true and highest good, according to Plato, is God, and therefore he would call him a philosopher who loves God; for philosophy is directed to the obtaining of the blessed life, and he who loves God is blessed in the enjoyment of God." so we really are philosophers! (haha)
Augustine is so ... not sarcastic, but facetious sometimes. He knows that Plato's highest good was his god, not God. But he puts it like "yeah, I agree with everything you say..." That's the problem with talking to many people these days, they agree with everything you say, but not the definitions of your words (think- love, good, spirituality etc. )
