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Ollie Burgess
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Just crossed the halfway mark 🎉
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Garrett Farrell
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Five books left, covering 330 pages. I think this is where the book truly becomes a beast.
Content wise, still really interesting. XVII was probably the least philosophical so far, going more into depth on examining the early prophets and davidic books of the bible, but still fascinating. It’s easy to see why he was regarded as the church’s greatest intellect for almost 900 years.
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Content wise, still really interesting. XVII was probably the least philosophical so far, going more into depth on examining the early prophets and davidic books of the bible, but still fascinating. It’s easy to see why he was regarded as the church’s greatest intellect for almost 900 years.
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,
— May 02, 2026 09:41AM
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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.
— May 01, 2026 12:58PM
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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.
