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Occidental Ideas, Part 7: from Augustine to Boethius

Augustine lived in an age of anxiety.The established state and the civilized world were being eroded by foreign elements once considered the necessary components of political stabilization and economic surety, and by political divisiveness and uncertainty as to how to … Continue reading

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Occidental Ideas, Part 6: Augustine (Plato baptized)

Plotinus is the last flower of the world as Greek. After him it is the Roman influence that ascends in cult and culture, and its power comes in two flavours: practicality, and legality. Both these, along with Plotinus, and the … Continue reading

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