Wednesday, April 22, 2015

"For the whole body of those rightly handling the word of truth, the manifold wisdom of the word of God, we especially beseech [thee. Lord have mercy]."

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"Pro universis recte tractantibus verbum veritatis, multiformem Verbi Dei sapientiam peculiariter obsecramus.  [Kyrie eleison.]" ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

"As for schoolteaching, it is so strenuous that no one ought to be bound to it for more than ten years."

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". . . wen einer hatt schul gehalten, ungeferlich ein 10 jar, so mag er mit guttem gewissen daruon lassen, den die arbeit ist groß, und...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Why I lack a "perfecta volunta"

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"every inclination or movement is perfected when it achieves its end or attains its term.  Hence there is only a perfected will when, g...

A distinction lost on the contemporary mind

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"when the exterior act  is good or bad [1] solely because of its order to the end, then the goodness or badness of the act of the will ...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

"If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find him in the chalice."

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     Widely attributed to St. John Chrysostom, but sounds to me more like somebody's crisp paraphrase of Homily 50 .4 on Matthew ( ed. F...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

"The certainties of physics might establish an intellectual foundation, and philosophical ambiguities may delight, but not much compares to the roar of a bike."

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      Matthew B.Crawford, as quoted in The chronicle of higher education, 8 April 2015 .

Sachphilologie

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"If Turner had spent a bit more time with [August] Boeckh, ['who lectured on "Classical Studies" . . . at the University ...