Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo · first published 1482
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The Confessions by Augustine of Hippo.
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗…into new subjects. It doesn't hurt that history is also filled with stories as compelling as most fiction. Much of the old stuff also holds up quite well. Meditations by Aurelius is amazing. Also, Confessions by Augustine of Hippo. I have many interests but botany became a big one, and the scientific naming scheme is mostly Latin and Greek, which leads to some interesting word history. "Sativa" means anything…
on “Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it” ↗…the effect that the Reformation was the reaction of Augustine's theology of grace on Augustine's theology of the church. I moderately well understand this, not through reading Augustine; I have read The Confessions and a smidgen each of On the Trinity and The City of God. But it was Peter Brown's Augustine of Hippo and the first volume of Pelikan's history of Christian doctrine that told me.
on “C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books” ↗…this way, then, people hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love more than the truth. They love truth when it shines warmly on them, and hate it when it rebukes them. * Augustine, Confessions, Book 10, ch. 23 / sec. 34, https://wist.info/augustine-of-hippo/46880/
on “Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?” ↗