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Patrick Lacher
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I am using an audiobook version to hear St. Augustine. It is over 46 hours in length. So I will be while finishing,
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Garrett Farrell
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“Unchanging truth either speaks by itself in a way we cannot explain to the minds of rational creatures, or it speaks through a mutable creature.” XVI.8
Really like this passage. There’s an element of a priori knowledge that I, as a mathematician, find very interesting, but there’s also a kind of foretaste of Aquinas’ “agent intellects”. The two definitely seem to be in dialogue epistemologically.
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Really like this passage. There’s an element of a priori knowledge that I, as a mathematician, find very interesting, but there’s also a kind of foretaste of Aquinas’ “agent intellects”. The two definitely seem to be in dialogue epistemologically.
Garrett Farrell
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St. Augustine is reading Genesis at a level my high school theology teachers (shoutout Sister Margaret) could hardly dream of, and that is saying something.
— Apr 30, 2026 01:09PM
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