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it seems to me difficult to distinguish what is engrained from a young age versus what is a genuine intrinsic moral feeling. Besides issues such as murder and harm and treating others well. Idk I think this was a really important section but there's still questions I have about the specifics of these statements. Also he makes a strong argument for the importance of hierarchy and almost an authoritarianism structure,
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Kelsey
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Astrology. Certainly an area of intense debate. I can agree with most of his arguments although I have to say I can see how there may be some truth to it, but yeah it is mostly just a waste of time
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which to me seems quite Catholic of him lol, and I certainly agree with the importance of hierarchy for societal stability to an extent, but he seems to not differentiate going against one's human higher ups and against God. People are fallible and can become corrupt, so it seems to me necessary for pushback in some cases, while that is not an issue that needs to be considered with God
— 10 hours, 46 min ago
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So in this second section of book 3, Augustine makes what I think is a very important distinction between the laws of man and of God. The only issue I have with this is that he makes a very clear statement against things going against the laws of nature vs against time/culture, which again is very important, but how are you to know with certainty which is which? I agree this is an important thing to understand but
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Kelsey
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spirituality I suppose. I just think that people can get a lot out of secular art, even in a religious sense.
— Nov 08, 2026 08:46AM
Kelsey
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how plays often aim to make people feel emotions of sadness. It kind of seemed to me as though he was attacking all forms of art that are not made for the express purpose of glorifying God. And that to me seems incredibly sad and misleading. Personally I feel that all human-made art is intrinsically a glorification of God whether the artist meant it that way or even believes in God or not. But that is my own view of
— Nov 08, 2026 08:45AM
Kelsey
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halfway through book 3, I'm finding that I agree with him on pretty much all of the deeper concepts he's getting at and the underlying theological messages, but I think some of his wording or specific things he's attacking may be a little misleading or too far. As I wrote in one of the pages, maybe this is why he's a saint and I'm not. But I guess the one thing that bothered me the most was his attack of theatre and
— Nov 08, 2026 08:43AM
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also I'm not writing much here because I'm annotating, and by annotating I do mean just completely dissecting absolutely everything, my book looks like I'm writing a thesis on it
— Oct 27, 2026 01:43PM
Kelsey
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I'm extremely interested by the prospect of this book and have been really wanting to read it for quite a long time. I just finished book 1 (of 13) and have annotated it intensely. I love annotating books so much when they're actually of interest to me and this is quite frankly fascinating. I certainly don't agree with all his notions and didn't go in expecting to but that's part of the fun. Very fascinating
— Oct 25, 2026 06:50PM