Status Updates From City of God
City of God by
Status Updates Showing 1-30 of 18,423
Garrett Farrell
is 82% done
XIX Makes up for the last few books being not too philosophical in a big way. Teleology, governmental philosophy, metaphysics, and virtue theory all creep in.
I think Augustine is considered a Christian Platonist for good reason, but in teleology and governmental philosophy, his writings do have a smack of Aristotelianism to them.
— 5 hours, 20 min ago
Add a comment
I think Augustine is considered a Christian Platonist for good reason, but in teleology and governmental philosophy, his writings do have a smack of Aristotelianism to them.
Garrett Farrell
is 77% done
There’s a passage in this book where Augustine gives due credit to philosophers of the earthly city, saying they find some truth in their argumentation, but that they stop short of finding full truth because they lack the measure and aim which comes with God. Tempted to think Augustine is sketching a proof of God’s existence by objective morality, but not sure.
— May 05, 2026 09:14PM
Add a comment
CJ Felix
is on page 16 of 1186
“They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.”
AGAIN the thinker sticker
“The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”
Ecclesiastes 7:4 ESV
— May 04, 2026 05:03PM
Add a comment
AGAIN the thinker sticker
“The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”
Ecclesiastes 7:4 ESV
Ollie Burgess
is on page 607 of 1186
Just crossed the halfway mark 🎉
— May 04, 2026 07:52AM
Add a comment
