Austin

East-facing Christian

[Austin @monkmanque]

The celibate dons of Oxbridge were like a hidden golden class, almost like Plato's Nocturnal Council in the Laws: a throwback to the celibate clergy and religious of the Catholic past, surviving into the Victorian era, until their abolition in the mid 19th century.

[Luc Auffret @LucAuffret]

Les cloches de Notre-Dame de Paris et de la totalité des églises de France sonnent en même temps pour marquer l'arrivée du Pape Léon XIV en France.

[Austin @monkmanque]

@agostino_harry @b0rtcask1 Come on… the ancients would have furiously broken communion over any one of dozens of things that Rome has done since 1965, and probably called them a nest of vipers to boot…

[Austin @monkmanque]

God is the center; from him, the angelic hierarchies radiate goodness.

[Austin @monkmanque]

Jerusalem is the center of the world.

[Austin @monkmanque]

I absolutely did not know that the medievals thought the cosmos was mainly bright blue, with nighttime darkness only a local phenomenon.

[Austin @monkmanque]

We don’t have an integrated vision of the universe anymore. Physicists can’t even reconcile their theories of the large and small scales (relativity and quantum mechanics).

[Austin @monkmanque]

@CMReport @LilaGraceRose Women, you mean

[Austin @monkmanque]

@AbuKhamr @yunghogarthian thought you might appreciate this

[Austin @monkmanque]

@neilbarth214 Yes, I don't think the Christian and post-Christian obsession with true and false beliefs is a red herring. People act on beliefs and they shape their whole lives.

[Austin @monkmanque]

For Plato the line between mental illness and evil lifestyles is not so clear. Wrong opinions and a disordered soul lead to bad lives and, in the end, madness. A life oriented wrongly is already for him a kind of mental illness, a failure to perceive or at least follow the Good.

[Austin @monkmanque]

@JLLiedl Maybe one big event a year is nice… reopening Notre Dame… new pope…

[Austin @monkmanque]

@HarrierMagnus

[Austin @monkmanque]

@pegobry_en In Purgatory?

[Austin @monkmanque]

Before it was the romantic city of lights, Paris was the mind of Christendom. Almost every scholastic was there: Aquinas, Bonaventure, Albert, Scotus, Abelard, Peter Lombard (of the Sentences)…

[Austin @monkmanque]

If man revolts against Christ, woman will revolt against man.

[Austin @monkmanque]

@_CLancellotti Lindsay Clancy’s priest said that no woman in her right mind would kill her children, therefore she wasn’t in her right mind, therefore she wasn’t culpable and didn’t commit a mortal sin. Thus, for a woman to kill her children is never a mortal sin. An honorary Jesuit…

[Austin @monkmanque]

O snail,
climb Mount Fuji—
but slowly, slowly!

(Issa)

[Austin @monkmanque]

@PgBirk I think Plato's idea isn't that anyone should go to a *bad* school, such things shouldn't even exist, it's just that the mindset "my right and duty is do the best for my own family no matter what" is exactly what he's trying to prevent.