Monday, September 29
Book X Chapter 1
This chapter seems (from its title) to set out to inquire weather or not the Platonist's spirits(daemons) require sacrifices and worship due to the one God. Augustine has previously said that the Platonist's idea of supreme good is God, therefore the Platonists are the noblest of all philosophers. Then he notes that some latin terms are inaccurate for discussing God... then finishes by saying that if the daemons do not love us, they do not deserve our worship and sacrifices. But if they do, then do they not get their blessedness from the same source as us?
Does Augustine mean to say that if they do love us, they don't want our sacrifices because we receive blessedness from God, as do they. Therefore if we sacrifice to them and worship them we don't get that blessedness, so the daemons turn out to not love us? He seems to leave something out... but I'm not sure this is it...
Does Augustine mean to say that if they do love us, they don't want our sacrifices because we receive blessedness from God, as do they. Therefore if we sacrifice to them and worship them we don't get that blessedness, so the daemons turn out to not love us? He seems to leave something out... but I'm not sure this is it...
Sunday, September 21
sounds good.
see title of post.
how about this friday doing the first chapter in book 10? (is that where we should pick up?) we'll see if a faster pace will work later on (like, 2 or 3 chapters a week).
how about this friday doing the first chapter in book 10? (is that where we should pick up?) we'll see if a faster pace will work later on (like, 2 or 3 chapters a week).
Hey I've got an Idea
How about one chapter at a time... I sat down the other day and read a chapter pretty quick... I think that would be great, that way we don't wait to have read the whole book to discuss...
Whatcha think?
Whatcha think?
Sunday, September 7
I hope we hear from MJ, but I think some sort of schedule would help me to keep reading...
Tuesday, September 2
let's rock n roll
ok kids. lets hit the books. so to speak. i'm up for getting back into city of god, and specifically, to get back into some good discussions with you guys. any conversation or thoughts from the first nine books is game too. definitely would be neat to re-visit some old posts. but let's also keep on going with some new stuff. we never discussed book ten, though i did post a question/thoughts on it. so if we want, we could start there.
i propose going at a slow pace. we can either have no deadlines nor certain days to finish readings and just let each other know how we're doing, and wait for everyone to post a comment before considering moving on to another book. OR, if you guys want to set dates, we could do it, say, every saturday or every other saturday or something to that effect. what are your thoughts?
i propose going at a slow pace. we can either have no deadlines nor certain days to finish readings and just let each other know how we're doing, and wait for everyone to post a comment before considering moving on to another book. OR, if you guys want to set dates, we could do it, say, every saturday or every other saturday or something to that effect. what are your thoughts?
