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...
