Iman’s Reviews > Saturn Through the Ages: Between Time and Eternity > Status Update

"Humility is a peculiarly Saturnian virtue,
and one of the most beautiful virtues of all.
This understanding of Fortune also gives us a framework for working with the concepts of benefic and malefic, which is related to the upsand downs of fortune. We need to get past the idea that only fortunate things are supposed to happen. That is not how life works out downhere in our mutable sublunary world, and this world.."

Really enjoying the section on the eternal laws. It's impressive how a book has made me genuinely curious about geometry and me mathematic theory

There seems to be a general understanding, across disciplines now, that the idea of perpetual "progress" is an anathema to natural flow. Restriction is miscatergorized or Madea thing to be in rebellion of

"If God is dead, if there is no eternal fixed heaven to look up to, if truth itself can change and evolve, then logically there are no fixed and exernal moral standards either. Morality becomes a matter of subjective feeling, opinion and judgment. ..At first glance this can seem to be very liberating. ..but I maintain that... this is one of the most ... destructive movements in
modern culture "