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8 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: self-negations

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Self Negation

He says Augustine repeatedly equates living by one's own standard, instinct, intuition, or imagination with becoming like the devil.

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Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

Transcript

"I don't. It's a constant process of self -negation. Okay. But what then he recognizes is that the only way that I can actually..."

Dante's Quiet Revolution

2025-03-25, day precision · Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution

Transcript

"...Now remember that Christianity focuses on the idea of humility, on self -negation, on removing yourself from the world. But Raphael is reinserting himself..."

Dante's Quiet Revolution

2025-03-25, day precision · Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution

Transcript

"...this is the very idea for the Catholic Church. Self -denial, self -negation. Okay? Now, you can think about this and understand now why..."

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Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History

2024-12-31, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...

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