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5 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: standard-god, standard-gods, standard-of-gods

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Standard of God

Augustine's contrast between living by God's truth and living by human nature or one's own standard, which Jiang reads as a demand for self-negation.

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Standard of God

Glossary

Augustine's contrast between living by God's truth and living by human nature or one's own standard, which Jiang reads as a demand for self-negation.

Timestamped Evidence

Dante's Quiet Revolution

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

Transcript

"...imagination, when we use our intuition, and not by the standard of God. The standard of God is to submit to him, to obey..."

Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God

2025-01-07, day precision · Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination

Transcript

"...lives by the standard of man and not by the standard of God, he is like the devil. Okay? And the idea here is..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History

2024-12-31, day precision · glossary

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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