> Paul’s doctrine of grace: “Law came in to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.”
#HannahArendt in #LifeOfTheMind has me thinking of #LaoTse, #LaoTzu #LaoTzu38 #老子38
> Courtesy was made up after losing sincerity and honesty. Courtesy is the very cause that is confusing the world. If you teach benevolence, justice and courtesy with knowledge to people, they will become fools.
https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-38
#ChyonMage #ちょんまげ英語日誌 #英訳 #translation

> Duns Scotus, the lonely defender of the primacy of the Will over the Intellect and.. the factor of contingency in everything.. Duns Scotus.. to be recognized not only as “the most important thinker of the Christian #MiddleAges” but perhaps also as the unique one who did not seek a compromise between the #Christian #faith and Greek #philosophy, and who dared, therefore, to make it a badge of true “Christians [to say] that God acts contingently.”
#HannahArendt #DunsScotus
#LifeOfTheMind

> .. don’t we all know how relatively easy it has always been to lose at least the habit, if not the faculty, of thinking? Nothing more is needed than to live in constant distraction and never leave the company of others.. When Socrates goes home, he is not alone, he is by himself.. What #Socrates discovered was that we can have intercourse with ourselves, as well as with others
#Arendt #HannahArendt on #thinking #LifeOfTheMind #HabitOfThinking #distraction #alone vs #ByYourself

> In Taste egoism is overcome,”.. Judgment, and especially judgments of taste, always reflect upon others and...take their possible judgments into account. This is necessary because I am human and cannot live outside the company of men
#HannahArendt #Arendt #LifeOfTheMind #Taste #Judgment